“I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced! With the rational respect that is due to it, knavish priests have added prostitutions of it, that fill or might fill the blackest and bloodiest pages of human history.
{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, September 3, 1816]”
― The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, September 3, 1816]”
― The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
“Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man”
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“Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.
{Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams, November 13 1816}”
― The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
{Letter to his son and 6th US president, John Quincy Adams, November 13 1816}”
― The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
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