Practical Quotations » John Adams

John Adams

John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:30:44 +0000

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.

John Adams

John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:28:16 +0000

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.

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John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:27:00 +0000

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

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John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:24:42 +0000

[N]ever in my life did I own a slave.

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John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:21:39 +0000

I have, through my whole life, held the practice of slavery in . . . abhorrence.

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John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:17:07 +0000

I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.

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John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:14:31 +0000

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.

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John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:12:26 +0000

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!

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John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:06:12 +0000

Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company: I mean hell.

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John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:03:32 +0000

The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

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John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:01:53 +0000

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.