“The business of the government is not to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the sanctity of the Sabbath. All these things are important, but they are not politics.”

— James Truslow Adams

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About James Truslow Adams

Historian • American

James Truslow Adams was a distinguished American writer and historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1922 for his book 'The Founding of New England'. He is most famously credited with coining the term 'the...

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