 | John Esten Cooke - Virginia - 1883 - 562 pages
...religion according to the dictates of conscience." Lastly, the blessing of liberty can only be preserved by " a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance,...by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." Such were the foundations of free government, laid broad and deep, by George Mason. The equality of... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 480 pages
...ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof. " No free government can be preserved but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance,...by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. " Religion can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and, therefore,... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - Education - 1884 - 1242 pages
...independent of, the government of Virginia ought to be 'feted or established within the limits thereof. I?- That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any P*ople but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence... | |
 | West Virginia - Law - 1884 - 994 pages
...in this State. 20. Free government and the blessings of liberty can be preserved to any people only by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. ARTICLE IV. ELECTIONS AND OFFICEBS. 1. The male citizens... | |
 | Howard Willis Preston - History - 1886 - 344 pages
...to be erected or established within the limits thereof. XV. That no free government, or the blessing of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by...moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. XVI. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1886 - 486 pages
...ought to be erected or established within the limits thereof. " No free government can be preserved but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance,...by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. " Religion can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and, therefore,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 846 pages
...shall never be prohibited by law. Section 22. The blessings of a free government can only be maintained by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance,...by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. ARTICLE II. BOUNDARIES. Section 1. It is hereby ordained and declared, that the State of Wisconsin... | |
 | Wisconsin. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1886 - 448 pages
...22d section of Article 1 declares that " the blessings of a free government can only be maintained by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance,...by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." It is obvious enough, that men will differ as to what may constitute "fundamental principles," but... | |
 | Wisconsin. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1886 - 458 pages
...22d section of Article 1 declares that " the blessings of a free government can only be maintained by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance,...by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." It is obvious enough, that men will differ as to what may constitute " fundamental principles," but... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - 1887 - 434 pages
...Mason, and the fifteenth and sixteenth by Patrick Henry. The fifteenth article was in these words : " That no free government, or the blessings of liberty,...by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." The sixteenth article is an assertion of the doctrine of religious liberty, — the first time that... | |
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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. 
