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| John Adams, 2nd president |
What they stood for. What their life stories were like.
I find the best way to answer these questions is through hearing from the founding Fathers themselves!
So, I officially decided to share some Founding Fathers' quotes once a week.
Before sharing, I would like to point out how RIDICULOUS it is for anyone to claim that our founders were indifferent to Christianity, or that many of them were atheists. Hearing these quotes from the founders themselves will prove otherwise.
Our first quotes are from none other than John Adams, 2nd president of the United States:
[TO THE OFFICERS OF THE FIRST BRIGADE OF THE THIRD DIVISION OF THE MILITIA OF MASSACHUSETTS 11 October, 1798]
"While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and impious policy, we shall have the strongest reason to rejoice in the local destination assigned us by Providence. [ahem! God]
But should the people of America once become capable of that deep simulation towards one another, and towards foreign nations, which assumes the language of justice and moderation while it is practising iniquity and extravagance, and displays in the most captivating manner the charming pictures of candor, frankness, and sincerity, while it is rioting in rapine and insolence, this country will be the most miserable habitation in the world; because we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, 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."
~John Adams
-source: Historic Words
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