No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

That it is better that 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved.

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.