John Adams Quote

Quote from John Adams,

"Twenty times in the course of my late reading have I been on the point of breaking out, "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!!!" But in this exclamation I would have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean hell."

By:	John Adams (more quotes by John Adams or books by/about John Adams)
	(1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source:	letter to Thomas Jefferson, June 28, 1813, quoted from Charles Francis Adams, ed., Works of John Adams (1856), vol. X, p. 254
Categories:	Agnostic, Morality, President, Reason, Religion, Skepticism
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