John Adams
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
