The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation. — John Adams Copy Share Image
All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have… — John Adams Copy Share Image
This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism, which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in this earth. Not a Baptism, not a Marriage, not a Sacrament can… — 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
As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There exists, I believe, throughout the whole Christian world, a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or doubt the divine inspiration… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Upon this point all speculative politicians will agree, that the happiness of society is the end of government, as all divines and… — 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 Image
“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 Image
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity — John Adams Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together. — John Adams Copy Share Image
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