John Adams on the Foundation of Social Felicity

Posted on July 8, 2005
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“[R]eligion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.” — John Adams (letter in response to Rush letter above, 8/28 1811)

Reference: The Works of John Adams, C.F. Adams, ed., vol. 9 (636)

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