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To: FateAmenableToChange; Kevin Curry
Exactly. We as a society want to encourage:

Conversely, we as a society want to discourage:


"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 for the government of any other." -John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798 Address to the military


23 posted on 08/01/2002 5:13:06 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad
Fantastic quote and post - I'll repeat it:
"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 for the government of any other." - John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798 Address to the military

27 posted on 08/01/2002 5:21:36 PM PDT by Tomalak
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