John adams Quote by 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

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not…

— John Adams

“Again, John Adams understood that the new Constitution simply lacked the powers to control a people who were, by their own lack of virtue,…

— Jack Pelham

“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

“[John] Adams saw clearly that politics is the indispensable foundation for things elegant and beautiful. First and above all else, you must secure life,…

— Charles Krauthammer

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

“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. John Adams, U.S. President”

— George Washington

I’ve chosen not to challenge the rule of law, because in our system there really is no intermediate step between a Supreme Court decision…

— Al Gore

[John] Adams was arguing that a separate social order existed that needed to be embodied in senates and his fellow Americans could not accept…

— Gordon S. Wood

“From many things that Adams and his contemporaries wrote, it is clear that they did not use the word "religion" to exclude Christian ideas…

— Gary DeMar

[ Massachusetts constitution] was [John Adams] attempt to justify that structure by the traditional notion of social estates - that the executive represented the…

— Gordon S. Wood