Kesher Talk

From the archives department: President John Adams, 1806

"I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any
other nation. If I were an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I
should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most
essential instrument for civilizing the nations. If I were an atheist of
the other sect, who believe or pretend to believe that all is ordered by
chance, I should believe that chance had ordered the Jews to preserve and
propagate to all mankind the doctrine of a supreme, intelligent, wise,
almighty sovereign of the universe, which I believe to be the great
essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization."

- John Adams, 2nd U.S. President, 1806

posted by Judith @ 11/14/2002 05:04:29 AM