亚当斯:“我们的政府并没有配备足够的权力,去对抗那些不受道德和宗教约束的人类激情。贪婪、野心、复仇或放荡,会像鲸鱼冲破渔网一样,轻易挣断我们宪法中最坚固的绳索。我们的宪法只为有道德和宗教信仰的人民而制定,它完全不适用于对任何其他人群的治理。”
“We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Galantry, 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 to the government of any other."
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