He Who Made All Men

In Short, It Is The Greatest Absurdity To Suppose It In The Power Of One, Or Any Number Of Men, At The Entering Into Society, To Renounce Their Essential Natural Rights, Or The Means Of Preserving Those Rights; When The Grand End Of Civil Government, From The Very Nature Of Its Institution, Is For The Support, Protection, And Defence Of Those Very Rights; The Principal Of Which, As Is Before Observed, Are Life, Liberty, And Property.

For No People Will Tamely Surrender Their Liberties, Nor Can They Easily Be Subdued, Where Knowledge Is Diffusd And Virtue Preservd . On The Contrary, When People Are Universally Ignorant And Debauched In Their Manners, They Will Sink Under Their Own Weight, Without The Aid Of Foreign Invaders.

Of How Much Importance Is It, That The Utmost Pains Be Taken By The Public To Have The Principles Of Virtue Early Inculcated On The Minds Even Of Children, And The Moral Sense Kept Alive.

The Diminution Of Public Virtue Is Usually Attended With That Of Public Happiness, And The Public Liberty Will Not Long Survive The Total Extinction Of Morals.

He Therefore Is The Truest Friend To The Liberty Of His Country Who Tries Most To Promote Its Virtue, And Who, So Far As His Power And Influence Extend, Will Not Suffer A Man To Be Chosen Into Any Office Of Power And Trust Who Is Not A Wise And Virtuous Man.