John Quincy Adams Quotes About Constitution

Quotes about: Constitution

• We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

  John Quincy Adams

  Religious, Business, 4th Of July

• Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.

  John Quincy Adams

  People, Constitution, Good Sense

• Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth. Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail. Always vote for a principle, though you vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost. America, in the assembly of nations, has uniformly spoken among them the language of equal liberty, equal justice, and equal rights.

  John Quincy Adams

  Sweet, Powerful, Blessed

• Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail.

  John Quincy Adams

  Attachment, People, May

  John Quincy Adams, William Harwood Peden (1946). “The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams”

• The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength.

  John Quincy Adams

  Religious, Law, Giving

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