[Jacquerie]

James Madison observed: “Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks, no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.”

[Jacquerie]

Constitutional and Natural Law ping!

[Marie2]

Sin really does enslave people. The more sinful behavior we indulge in, the more enslaved we are.

[loveliberty2]

"Virtue Among the People" was considered by America's Founders as essential to liberty. Professor Lewis's essay is an excellent reminder for our society today.

Dr. Russell Kirk and others have written on this topic, which also was explored at length in a recently-reprinted book, "Our Ageless Constitution." See

[pallis]

Thank you!

[Jeff Head]

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."- John Adams, Oct. 11, 1798

"A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.... While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader.... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security." - Samuel Adams

"[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of 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 onto any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man." Samuel Adams

AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY

12 STEPS TO RENEW AMERICA

[MajorThomas]

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