Salient Quotations from John Adams

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." 

 

"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation...so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."

"The Science of Government it is my duty to study, more than all other Sciences...I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematics and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematics and Philosophy, Geography, Natural History, Naval Architecture, Navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture..."

 

And liberty is tenuous again.  Will our sons and daughters have liberty to study what they choose unless we are a moral, merciful people, wise to the corruptibility of coin, credit and circulation, given to the study of the science of government, politics, and war?