
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
Glenn Beck
Television
Fox News
2010-07-20
2010s, 2010
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 301.
"Canon Law: Ecclesiastical Ministry" (1771)
Questions sur l'Encyclopédie (1770–1774)
Context: Virtue supposes liberty, as the carrying of a burden supposes active force. Under coercion there is no virtue, and without virtue there is no religion. Make a slave of me, and I shall be no better for it. Even the sovereign has no right to use coercion to lead men to religion, which by its nature supposes choice and liberty. My thought is no more subject to authority than is sickness or health.
“There is no valid virtue without piety, and there is no authentic piety without virtue.”
[2013, From the Divine to the Human, World Wisdom, 70, 978-1-936597-32-1]
Spiritual path, Virtue
“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”
“Liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.”
As quoted in Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn : Who Settled the State of Pennsylvania, and Founded the City of Philadelphia (1827) by S. C. Stevens, p. 117