“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.”

-George Mason, First Draft the Virginia Declaration of Rights, ca. May 20-26, 1776,
at http://www.gunstonhall.org/; viewed 8/22/2010;
Final Draft adopted unanimously by the Virginia Convention of Delegates,
Williamsburg, Virginia, June 12, 1776