Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious…

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a…

— John Quincy Adams

John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. George Washington warned…

— Joe Lieberman

“Our founders did not believe that our society could thrive without this kind of moral social structure. In fact, it was our second president,…

— Ben Carson

“John Adams when he said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of…

— Ben Carson

“In a letter to soldiers in 1798, John Adams, a Founding Father and practicing Unitarian, remarked: We had no government armed with power capable…

— Rod Dreher

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

— John Adams

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would…

— John Adams

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

— Leon Wieseltier

I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the…

— Stephen A. Douglas

I'm a supporter of embryonic stem cell research. I do think there are very important moral and also religious questions at stake in the…

— Michael Sandel

“The lessons of the Bible have a moral and religious influence on the character, as they are brought into the practical life. Timothy”

— Ellen G. White

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful…

— Samuel Johnson

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

— Robert Casey

“Unfortunately, we cannot live our lives according to the moral and religious convictions or petrified dogmas of our forebears. We have an obligation to…

— Farquhar McHarg

The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.

— Pope Francis