I'm starting to get that idea. I do like all the founders' quotes about the necessity for virtue in a free people, though. I just disagree that they wanted to coerce us into virtue. I believe the beauty of those quotes is their inherent acknowledgement that their is no virtue in an act that is coerced.
I also believe that as the governing authority assumes more and more responsibility, the people act less and less responsibly, more criminally, thus losing their virtue and causing the authoritarians among us to gleefully call for more and more restrictive laws.
Sam Cree was written on a takeout dinner I once picked up at a Japanes restaurant, they couldn't get my real name right. Lots of folks know I use it as a screen, if they surf here, they'll know me. I didn't know it apparently has other references.