Monday, October 15, 2012

Adams Family Style Patriotism

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God.  Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind can have any real Good Will toward Men?  Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of Society?  The Scriptures tell us righteousness exalteth a Nation.
--Abigail Adams

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this, that it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

--John Quincy Adams

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