We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge, or Gallantry（男女情欲）, 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.我们的宪法只为有道德、有宗教信仰的人民而制定；对于任何其他民众，它都完全无效。

—— 1798年10月11日，John Adams写给Massachusetts Militia第三师第一旅军官的一封信