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Morality and politics2 quotes
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 was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams · 1798Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. — Alexis de Tocqueville · 1835American experiment1 quote
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 was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams · 1798Freedom1 quote
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. — Alexis de Tocqueville · 1835Morality1 quote
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. — Alexis de Tocqueville · 1835Political theory1 quote
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 was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams · 1798Religion1 quote
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. — Alexis de Tocqueville · 1835