 | Virginia. General Assembly - Virginia - 1893 - 118 pages
...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 fundamental principles. 18. That religion, or the duty... | |
 | Winfield J. Davis - California - 1893 - 742 pages
...to uniform government. "6v°Tt>8rt*no free government or the blessings of liberty can be preservefl to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue. 7. That religion can be directed only by reason and conviction — not by force or violence ; and that... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention, George A. Glynn - Constitutional law - 1894 - 1126 pages
...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 fundamental principles 18. That religion, or the duty which... | |
 | Virginia Bar Association, Virginia State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1895 - 314 pages
...their judgment upon both questions, they had recourse to that article in the declaration of rights, that no free government, or the blessing of liberty can be preserved to any people but (among other things) by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles ; an article worthy to be written... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - Business & Economics - 1990 - 478 pages
...independent of, the government of Virginia, ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof. 15. That no free government, or the blessing of liberty,...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our CREATOR,... | |
 | Colin Bonwick - History - 1991 - 354 pages
...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...moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Law - 1993 - 548 pages
...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...moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." Throughout his career, and indeed throughout his life,... | |
 | Charles S. Hyneman - History - 1994 - 332 pages
...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...moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles."" The four states that followed in constitutional provision... | |
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That no free government, or the blessing 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. 
