[quote]GDollars37 wrote:
A society in which men and women are governed by belief in an enduring moral order, by a strong sense of right and wrong, by personal convictions about justice and honor, will be a good society–
Whatever political machinery it may utilize; while a society in which men and women are morally adrift, ignorant of norms, and intent chiefly upon gratification of appetites, will be a bad society–no matter how many people vote and no matter how liberal its formal constitution may be." [/quote]
John Adams put it more elegantly:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”