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Tim Walberg: “A republic once equally poised must either preserve its virtue or lose its liberty.”

On the recordFebruary 15, 2012
A republic once equally poised must either preserve its virtue or lose its liberty.
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Tim Walberg
Republican · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Walberg references Jonathan Witherspoon on the importance of virtue for liberty.

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