Democracy Quote by ABifarelli

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics

— John Adams

For when was public virtue to be found Where private was not?

— William Cowper

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion…

— John Adams

The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction…

— Samuel Adams

When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form

— John Adams

That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the preservation and…

— Edward Gibbon

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right…

— Joseph Pulitzer

The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first inaugural address,…

— Thomas G. West

Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and…

— George Washington

In America, we have equated personal business success with public virtue.

— Chrystia Freeland

That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in…

— James Madison