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Religious Quotes by John Quincy Adams
- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
- Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.
- The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . .…
- The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.
- I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance…
- Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with…
- We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral…
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