By Terence P. Jeffrey, The Stream - “Statesmen my dear sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand,” wrote Adams... “You cannot therefore be more pleasantly, or usefully employed than in the way of your profession, pulling down the strong holds of Satan,” Adams told his cousin. “This is not cant, but the real sentiment of my heart.”