John Adams Religion Quotes

John adams let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty. “but how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both jewish and christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?”. 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. “we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight. I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which i have sown, others to eat the bread which i have earned.

October 11, 2004 by jacobse.

Nelson quotes john adams as saying that if puritan fundamentalists weren’t restrained by the civil law, they would unreservedly “whip and crop, and pillory and roast.” as a member of the massachusetts constitutional convention of 1820, john adams fought strenuously to disestablish the state religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. John adams “we hold it for a fundamental and inalienable truth that religion and the manner of discharging it can be directed only by reason and conviction not by force and violence. The religion, then, of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man;