Freedom cannot long exist without morality.
George Washington: Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
George Washington: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.
George Washington: Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people.
Benjamin Franklin: Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.
Montesquieu (quoted by Thomas Jefferson): When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.
Alexander Hamilton: The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence.
James Madison: To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without virtue in the people, is a chimerical* idea.
Patrick Henry: Bad men cannot make good citizens.... A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue.
John Adams: Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams: Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.
Samuel Johnson: No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
Quotes found at the website "Quotes on Liberty and Virtue."
* chimerical = outlandish
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