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Revolutionary virtue: the Founding Fathers believed what today might be deemed a revolutionary idea: that only a virtuous people, grounded in morality and religion, can ever hope to remain free.(HISTORY: PAST AND PERSPECTIVE)
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people," John Adams famously announced in 1798. "It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
He was paraphrasing a line he'd written in 1776--"The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue"--when the new nation was but a dangerous dream. Three years later, cousin Sam observed, "While the People are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their Virtue they will be ready to surrender their Liberties to the first external or internal Invader.... If Virtue & Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslavd [sic]."
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