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Religion Quotes by John Adams
- Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
- The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
- 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…
- This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
- The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings…
- 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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