The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

The sentence presents the American Revolution not merely as a political break with Britain but as a moral-religious achievement. Adams frames the Revolution’s “highest glory” as the fusion of republican self-government with Christian ethical principles—suggesting that liberty, law, and civic virtue draw their legitimacy and stability from a Christian moral foundation. Read this way, the Revolution’s significance lies less in independence itself than in the creation of a polity whose institutions are meant to reflect transcendent moral duties. The claim also functions polemically: it elevates Christianity as a unifying source of public virtue and implies that separating civic life from Christian principles would endanger the Revolution’s intended legacy.