Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith

He was as great as a man can be without morality

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.