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• The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the… — Samuel Adams
• When was public virtue to be found when private was not? — William Cowper
• The founders of this nation understood that private morality is the fount from whence sound public policy springs. Replying to Washington's first… — 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… — George Washington
• There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted,… — Ronald Reagan
• When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
• An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue… — Joseph Pulitzer
• That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it… — James Madison
• We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah
• Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know… — Joseph Pulitzer
• Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics — John Adams

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