James Madison: Liberty Requires Virtue

“To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.”

James Madison, Fourth President of the United States and “Father of the Constitution”

PS: “chimerical” = wildly fanciful; highly unrealistic

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