"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."
- John Adams, signer of the Declaration of Independence
and second President of the United States, in a letter
"To The Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division
of the Militia of Massachusetts", 11 October, 1798
Printed in "Revolutionary Services and Civil Life of
General William Hull" by Maria Campbell and James Freeman Clarke
(New York, 1848) pp. 265-266
Also in the"The Works of John Adams"
by Charles Francis Adams (Boston, 1854) pp. 228-229.
Authorship was also attributed to John Adams who had died twenty seven years before
his writings were published. Can be found at the following:
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