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Richard Henry Lee has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?
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A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.
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It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by…
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It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.
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To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for…
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Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty…
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The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. ...All regulations tending to render this general militia…
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To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms...
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The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is…
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Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially…
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So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free…
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Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us…
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,…
— Edmund Burke
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The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue,…
— Benjamin Rush
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to…
— Moliere
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It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
— Benjamin Rush
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Without virtue, happiness cannot be.
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.
— Richard Henry Lee
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No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.
— Andrew Jackson
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy…
— Samuel Johnson
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
— Edmund Burke
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The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.
— Laozi
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[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.
— Samuel Williams
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