Constitution Quote by Gordon S. Wood

By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a…

— 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

[John] Adams was arguing that a separate social order existed that needed to be embodied in senates and his fellow Americans could not accept…

— Gordon S. Wood

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

I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence of the…

— Gordon S. Wood

“Again, John Adams understood that the new Constitution simply lacked the powers to control a people who were, by their own lack of virtue,…

— Jack Pelham

“Yes, and Eliza and I composed a precocious critique of the Constitution of the United Staes of America, too. We argued that it was…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Some talked,some wrote, and some fought to promote and establish it, but you, Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson thought for us all”

— Benjamin Rush

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

It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people.

— Gordon S. Wood

“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

[John] Adams's letters reveal his persistence and determination to win over the Dutch against all odds and to convince them and the other peoples…

— Gordon S. Wood