John adams Quote by Ben Carson

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

— Joe Lieberman

“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

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.”

— Ken Buck

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

— George Washington

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

— John Adams

“John Adams even appealed the matter to higher spiritual realities when he said, “The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is…

— Ben Carson

[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

It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people.

— Gordon S. Wood

By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a…

— Gordon S. Wood