We Have No Government Armed With Power Capable Of Contending With Human Passions Unbridled By Morality And Religion.

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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.
-- John Adams

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