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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

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John Adams
Age: 90 †
Born: 1735
Born: October 19
Died: 1826
Died: July 4
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The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity
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I am quite content to come home and go to Farming, be a select Man, and owe no Man any Thing but good Will. There I can get a little health and teach my Boys to be Lawyers.
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They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.
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The idea of infidelity [a disbelief in the inspiration of the Scriptures or the divine origin of Christianity] cannot be treated with too much resentment or too much horror. The man who can think of it with patience is a traitor in his heart and ought to be execrated [denounced] as one who adds the deepest hypocrisy to the blackest treason.
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Borrowed eloquence, if it contains as good stuff, is as good as own eloquence
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