Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Quotation of the Day


We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

 - John Adams, October 1798, in a message to the officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massacusetts


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