“No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.”

About Richard Henry Lee

Politician • American

Richard Henry Lee was a prominent American statesman and Founding Father from Virginia. He is best known for making the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great...