Constitution of Virginia
Article I - Bill of Rights
Section 15. Qualities necessary to preservation
of free government.
That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be
preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation,
temperance, frugality, and virtue; by frequent recurrence to fundamental
principles; and by the recognition by all citizens that they have
duties as well as rights, and that such rights cannot be enjoyed
save in a society where law is respected and due process is observed.
That free government rests, as does all progress, upon the broadest
possible diffusion of knowledge, and that the Commonwealth should
avail itself of those talents which nature has sown so liberally
among its people by assuring
the opportunity for their fullest development by an effective
system of education throughout the Commonwealth.