 | Mrs. Maria Hull Campbell - 1848 - 482 Seiten
...licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious...wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Oaths in this country are as yet universally considered as sacred obligations. That which you have... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - 1857
...blood, and around which the hopes of the nation are clustered.1 " Our constitution," wrote John Adams, " was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."2 Such has ever been, and such, it is to be hoped, will continue to be, the general character... | |
 | 1868
...of the Constitution ; and drew from John Adams the statement th-.it " our Constitution was made ' ' for a moral and religious People ; it is wholly "inadequate to the government of any other." Having accomplished this work, Parsons again retired to his profession, to receive the highest honora... | |
 | 1868
...adoption of the Constitution ; and drew from John Adams the statement that " our Constitution was made ' ' for a moral and religious People ; it is wholly "inadequate to the government of any other." Having accomplished this work, Parsons again retired to his profession, to receive the highest honors... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1963 - 285 Seiten
...religious principle." John Adams, speaking to the militia of Massachusetts in 1798, observed that : "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious...wholly inadequate to the government of any other." We find public expression of reliance upon divine providence again and again, over the years, in the... | |
 | United States. National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity - 1980 - 174 Seiten
...human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Adams tended to view virtue and interest as offsetting principles, both necessary to a republic. But... | |
 | Henry B. Clark - 1982 - 143 Seiten
...human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. And Washington in his Farewell Address wrote, Of all the suppositions and habits which lead to political... | |
 | Neil L. York - 1988 - 188 Seiten
...morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles."53 "Our Constitution," stressed John Adams, "was made only for a moral and religious people. It...wholly inadequate to the government of any other." "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality... | |
 | Arlin M. Adams, Charles J. Emmerich, Charles J.. Emmerich - 1990 - 172 Seiten
...capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion," he stated in 1798: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious...people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."38 While influenced by a broadly Puritan upbringing, Adams denounced institutional religion's... | |
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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. 
