Today's Founder Quote:
"Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue
is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for
the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established
in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor
any real liberty: and this public passion must be superiour to all private
passions."
--John Adams
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"The diminuition of public virtue is usually attended with that of public
happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction
of morals."
--Samuel Adams
"[A]ll history is a witness of the truth...that good morals are essential to
the faithful and upright discharge of public functions."
-- Noah Webster
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
liberty.
2 Corinthians 3:17
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CB
"The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty
but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves
themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind."
--Thomas Paine
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