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Morality 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.
- Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
- Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
- 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…
- The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.
- As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it, in…
- If (the) empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should…
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- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
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- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton