{"id":502,"date":"2010-01-02T05:06:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T12:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=502"},"modified":"2010-01-02T05:06:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T12:06:56","slug":"james-madison-liberty-requires-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"James Madison: Liberty Requires Virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_madison\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1d\/James_Madison.jpg\/225px-James_Madison.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_madison\" target=\"_blank\">James Madison<\/a>, Fourth President of the United States and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Father of the Constitution\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>PS: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/chimerical\" target=\"_blank\">chimerical<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d = wildly fanciful; highly unrealistic<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:949b0e5f-5904-4a16-a9fa-50ea0780b24e\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Del.icio.us Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Freedom\" rel=\"tag\">Freedom<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Happiness\" rel=\"tag\">Happiness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Virtue\" rel=\"tag\">Virtue<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d James Madison, Fourth President of the United States and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Father of the Constitution\u00e2\u20ac\u009d PS: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153chimerical\u00e2\u20ac\u009d = wildly fanciful; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=502\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28,80,105],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-quote","tag-freedom","tag-happiness","tag-virtue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}