John Adams Quotes Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection

• “Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart”
• “Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”
• “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
• “The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.”
• “The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion”

                                                                                                                                                                                               John Adams