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A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent can take away the rights of the other forty-nine percent. - Thomas Jefferson

A democracy never lasts long, it soon wastes, exhaust, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that didn't commit suicide. Whereas, a Republic is a government of laws. - John Adams

Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty -- as well as the privilege and interests -- of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers. - John Jay

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.  If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure it is because the people demand these high qualities. If the next centennial does not find us a great nation...it will because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces. - James A. Garfield

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. - John Adams

There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments.

Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark. - John Quincy Adams

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.  As nations become corrupt and vicious they have need of more masters - Benjamin Franklin

Of  all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion, morality are indispensable supports  - George Washington