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Constitution Quotes by John Adams
- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
- All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so…
- Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
- But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
- We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break…
- ...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never…
- Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human nature, that no art or policy can ever plane…
- It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man
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- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams