Professional Documents
Culture Documents
and Society
Prepared by L. Murphy
Smith
Professor of Accounting
Texas A&M University
George
Washington’s
Of all the
dispositions and
habits which lead
to political
prosperity,
religion and
morality are
indispensable
supports…
Reason and
experience both
forbid us to
expect that
national morality
can prevail in the
Ethics is essential to the functioning of a free society: 2nd U.S.
President John Adams observed: “We have no government
armed with power capable of contending with human passions
unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was
made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly
inadequate to the government of any other.”
“God who gave us life gave us
liberty. Can the liberties of a
nation be secure when we have
removed a conviction that these
liberties are the gift of God?”