John Adams
10/30/1735 - 7/4/1826
Second President of the United States 1797-1801
Vice President under George Washington
Delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses
Negotiated treaty of peace to end the Revolutionary War
Second President of the United States 1797-1801
Vice President under George Washington
Delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses
Negotiated treaty of peace to end the Revolutionary War
Founding Fathers
" The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and the attributes of God. "
( June 28, 1813 Letter to Thomas Jefferson )
" Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, Frugality and industry. To justice, kindness and charity toward his fellow man. And to piety, love and reverence toward almighty God! What a Utopia, what a paradise would this region be! "
" We recognize no Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! " ( April 18, 1775 on the eve of the Revolutionary War after a British major ordered John Adams, John Hancock and those with them to disperse in the name of George the Sovereign King of England. )
" July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. " ( letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress )
" 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. " ( October 11, 1798 )
" I have examined all religions, as well as my narrow sphere, my straightened means, and my busy life, would allow; and the result is that the Bible is the best Book in the world. It contains more philosophy than all the libraries I have seen. " ( December 25, 1813 letter to Thomas Jefferson )
" Without Religion this World would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite Company, I mean Hell. " ( To Thomas Jefferson, April 19, 1817 )
( June 28, 1813 Letter to Thomas Jefferson )
" Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, Frugality and industry. To justice, kindness and charity toward his fellow man. And to piety, love and reverence toward almighty God! What a Utopia, what a paradise would this region be! "
" We recognize no Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus! " ( April 18, 1775 on the eve of the Revolutionary War after a British major ordered John Adams, John Hancock and those with them to disperse in the name of George the Sovereign King of England. )
" July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. " ( letter written to Abigail on the day the Declaration was approved by Congress )
" 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. " ( October 11, 1798 )
" I have examined all religions, as well as my narrow sphere, my straightened means, and my busy life, would allow; and the result is that the Bible is the best Book in the world. It contains more philosophy than all the libraries I have seen. " ( December 25, 1813 letter to Thomas Jefferson )
" Without Religion this World would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite Company, I mean Hell. " ( To Thomas Jefferson, April 19, 1817 )
