"Is it reasonable to expect wisdom from the
ignorant? Fidelity from the profligate? Assiduity and application to public
business from men of a dissipated life? Is it reasonable to commit the
management of public revenue to one who has wasted his own patrimony? Those,
therefore, who pay no regard to religion and sobriety in the persons whom they
send to the legislature of any State are guilty of the greatest absurdity and
will soon pay dear for their folly."
--John Witherspoon, A Sermon Delivered at
Public Thanksgiving after Peace
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