“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, Moral Hazard | The Charleston Tea Party Blog
Friday, September 30, 2011
John Adams: No government can contain passions unbridled by religion
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