* "If we fear God and repent of our sins" - Conversation with [[Benjamin Rush]] about the conflict with Great Britain.
* "If we fear God and repent of our sins" - Conversation with [[Benjamin Rush]] about the conflict with Great Britain.
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*"The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were. . . . the general principles of Christianity."<ref>John Adams, [https://books.google.com/books?id=fWt3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=false The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States], Charles Francis Adams, editor (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1856), Vol. X, pp. 45-46, to Thomas Jefferson on June 28, 1813.</ref>