Righteousness exalts a nation,
But sin is a disgrace to any people.

Proverbs 14:34

We have no government armed
with power of contending with human
passions unbridled by morality
and religion. Avarice, ambition,
revenge, or gallantry, would break the
strongest cords of our Constitution
as a whale goes through a net.
Our Constitution is made only for a
moral and religious people.
It is wholly inadequate to the
government of any other.

John Adams, 1798