"Bad
men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God
that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals,
a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom.
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 a frequent recurrence
to fundamental principles.”