1-3 Origins of US Government quotations

On Morality
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations
become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of master.”
Benjamin Franklin

On the Israelite System

“when the time came for the United States of America to adopt a
constituion, our forefathers modeled it after the perfect Isrality
system of administration.”
Howard B. Rand, American lawyer, 1943

On the Anglo-Saxon System

“Has not every restitution of the antient Saxon laws had happy
effects? Is it not better now that we return at once into that happy
system of our ancestors, the wisest & most perfect ever yet
devised by the wit of man, as it stood before the 8th century.”
Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton, Philadelphia, Aug. 13,
1776