 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
 | John Zvesper - Political Science - 1977 - 258 pages
...pre-dated the intensification of Anglo-French differences. He began with the Machiavellian maxim: ' No free government or the blessings of liberty can be preserved to any people, but by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.' However, he meant not the original force and fraud... | |
 | Herbert J. Storing - Law - 2008 - 121 pages
...on which free republican government depends. The famous Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 held "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... | |
 | John P. Diggins - History - 1986 - 430 pages
...Burke's Speeches, 82-83. 35. Curiously, it is mentioned in the fifteenth of Virginia's sixteen bills of rights: "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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Judges - 1989 - 1346 pages
...the government of Virginia ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof. Section 15. 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... | |
 | Gary C. Bryner, Noel B. Reynolds - Political Science - 1987 - 206 pages
...the preservation of liberty and free government. The Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 stated 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... | |
 | Colin Bonwick - History - 1991 - 354 pages
...independent of the government of Virginia, ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof. 15. 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Law - 1993 - 548 pages
...recall the wisdom of George Mason, the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. In 1776, he wrote, "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... | |
 | Charles S. Hyneman - History - 1994 - 332 pages
...preservation of republican government. Virginia's statement appears to have been the template here: "Sec. 15. 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... | |
 | Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - Business & Economics - 1996 - 294 pages
...the preservation of liberty and free government. The Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 stated 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... | |
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