Holy ghost Quote by Ed Asner

“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

“John Adams when he said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of…

— Ben Carson

[ Massachusetts constitution] was [John Adams] attempt to justify that structure by the traditional notion of social estates - that the executive represented the…

— Gordon S. Wood

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

— George Washington

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

“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

Perhaps more significant than his experience in Europe, though, was [John] Adams's experience in his own country, and his extensive reading on the history…

— Gordon S. Wood

“Adams was both a devout Christian and an independent thinker, and he saw no conflict in that.”

— David McCullough

“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

“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

From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our…

— William Bennett