We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other. β¨ John Adams (1854). The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, p.229
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