 That 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, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.  A Collection of Cases Decided by the General Court of Virginia, Chiefly ... - Page 102by Virginia. General Court, William Brockenbrough, Hugh Holmes - 1815 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir George Campbell - Social Science - 1879 - 454 pages
...thereof. the military shoukl be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power. 17. That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1908 - 212 pages
...evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community have the right of suffrage. "That 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 and by a frequent recurrence... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - Education - 1884 - 1242 pages
...independent of, the government of Virginia ought to be 'feted or established within the limits thereof. I?- That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any P*ople but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence... | |
 | Thomas Armitage - Baptists - 1887 - 1042 pages
...religious liberty. Whereupon, Patrick Henry proposed the fifteenth and sixteenth sections in these words : 'That 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, and by frequent recurrence... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - 1887 - 434 pages
...Mason, and the fifteenth and sixteenth by Patrick Henry. The fifteenth article was in these words : " That 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, and by frequent recurrence... | |
 | American Historical Association - History - 1888 - 596 pages
...exercise of religion, were proposed by Mr. Henry." As reported to the body, these read as follows : " That 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, and by frequent recurrence... | |
 | George Campbell - United States - 1889 - 466 pages
...independent of, the Government of Virginia ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof. 17. That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to... | |
 | American literature - 1920 - 684 pages
...suffrage." In Section 15 of that bill (but we find the same thing in our other Bills of Rights) we read: "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 by frequent recurrence to fundamental... | |
 | Virginia - Virginia - 1892 - 702 pages
...on the records of that Court of the 12th of May, 1788. "In forming ' their Judgments (they observe), they had recourse to that article in the declaration...by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles, an article worthy to be written in letters of Gold. The propriety and necessity of the Independence... | |
 | Virginia - Virginia - 1892 - 724 pages
...on the records of that Court of the 12th of May, 1788. "In forming their Judgments (they observo), they had recourse to that article in the declaration of Rights, that no free Government or the I'lt&iincs of Liberty can be preserved to any people, but (among other things.) by frequent recurrence... | |
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