We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man — John Adams Copy Share Image
It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people — John Adams Copy Share Image
The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen — John Adams Copy Share Image
“A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.” — John Adams Copy Share Image
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor… — John Adams Copy Share Image
By the former of these (canon law), the most refined, sublime, extensive, and astonishing constitution of policy that ever was conceived by… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A question arises whether all the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judicial, shall be left in this body? I think a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If the Christian religion, as I understand it, or as you understand it, should maintain its ground, as I believe it will,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
To suppose arms in the hands of citizens, to be used at individual discretion, except in private self-defense, or by partial orders… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied… — John Adams Copy Share Image
...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; for the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Now be it known, That I John Adams, President of the United States of America, having seen and considered the said Treaty… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire.… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“When writing the constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, John Adams wrote: I must judge for myself, but how can I judge,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Were I to define the British constitution, therefore, I should say, it is a limited monarchy, or a mixture of the three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant, in cases of necessity, can no more be doubted, than to hang a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands: we have a check upon two branches of the legislature, as… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share
“Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be independent. Regard… — John Adams Copy Share
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity — John Adams Copy Share
We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of… — John Adams Copy Share
“The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to… — John Adams Copy Share
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The… — John Adams Copy Share
“Upon common theaters, indeed, the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actors than their own aprobation. But upon the stage… — John Adams Copy Share
There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of… — John Adams Copy Share
I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind… — John Adams Copy Share
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or… — John Adams Copy Share
During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together. — John Adams Copy Share
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in… — John Adams Copy Share
I consider a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for public service. — John Adams Copy Share
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