 | Maria Campbell, James Freeman Clarke - 1848 - 508 pages
...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 people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Oaths in this country are as yet universally considered as sacred obligations.... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - 1857 - 488 pages
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1963 - 306 pages
...religious principle." John Adams, speaking to the militia of Massachusetts in 1798, observed that : "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." We find public expression of reliance upon divine providence again... | |
 | Charles E. Rice - 1964 - 224 pages
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 | John R. Howe - 1966 - 284 pages
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 | 1980 - 900 pages
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 | John William Angell, E. Pendleton Banks, Wake Forest University. Department of Religion - 1984 - 192 pages
...government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious...It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other' ' (95). In his Farewell Address, President Washington cautioned against the notion that "morality... | |
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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. 
