Search Quotations
John Adams
The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
[N]ever in my life did I own a slave.
I have, through my whole life, held the practice of slavery in . . . abhorrence.
I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.
Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. . . . What a Eutopia – what a Paradise would this region be!
Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company: I mean hell.
The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.
Statesmen, my dear sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.
