John Adams (1735–1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father. He served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. Here are a selection of some of his quotes. "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." —John Adams. "The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." —John Adams. "But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe." —John Adams. "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." —John Adams. "Human passions unbridled by morality and religion would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net." —John Adams. "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?" —John Adams. "Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell." —John Adams (letter to Thomas Jefferson, April 19, 1817). "To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do." —John Adams. "Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it." —John Adams. "The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best." —John Adams. "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people." —John Adams. "Virtue is not always amiable." —John Adams.
What an interesting comment. Perhaps he was like Nostradamus, predicting that the government he helped create would be inadequate at containing fraudulent characters from overtaking the government with a coordinated system of lies, repeating of the lies, then repeatedly repeating said lies until people believe them to be the truth. If he was that prescient, why did he not build better protections from that into the constitution? Other than that, I mostly admire the man. I read a biography (very long-winded with too many pages of letters to his wife) which did detail that things he did for the country, but otherwise he was a product of his environment, which was very different from today.
I like what he said. He's describing what the constitution sought to embrace, the freedom FROM religion! That's the concept that the country was founded on. And yet MAGA seeks a Fundamentalist, Fascist Christian State thinking that's what the country's founders envisioned. This is what home schooling, and religious education breeds. Ignorant, easily conned, fearful, Karen's and Kens who would rather see Nazi or Putin style government so long as white people stay in power. Disgusting!
