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John Adams
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon
wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never
was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
(source: John Adams, Works, Vol.
VI,p. 484, to John Taylor on April 15th, 1814.
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John Adams
"We have no government armed with power capable
of contending with human passions unbridled by morality
and religion... Our Constitution was made only for
a moral and religious people . It is wholly inadequate
to the government of any other."
(Source: John Adams, The Works
of John Adams, Second President of the United States,
Charles Francess Adams, editor (Boston; Little Brown
and Company, 1854),Vol.IX, p.229, to the officers
of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the
Militia of Massachusetts on October 11, 1798.)
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John Adams
"The general principles on which the fathers
achieved independence were…the general principles
of Christianity…I will avow that I then believed,
and now believe, that those general principles of
Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence
and attributes of God; and that those principles of
liberty are as unalterable as human nature."
(Source: John Adams, Works, Vol.
X, pp. 45-46, to Thomas Jefferson on June 28,1813.)
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John Adams
"[I]t is religion and morality alone which can
establish the principles upon which freedom can securely
stand. Religion and virtue are the only foundations...of
republicanism and of all free governments."
(Source: John Adams, Works, Vol.
IX p. 636 to Benjamin Rush on August 28, 1811.)
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