Essence Quote by John Adams

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

— John Adams

The generosity of spirit that is usually shown by advanced democracies disappears when the public feel two things: that their government is not in…

— Damian Green

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

Virtue is necessary to a republic.

— Baron de Montesquieu

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

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Someone once said that every form of government has one characteristic peculiar to it and if that characteristic is lost, the government will fall.…

— Ronald Reagan

...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become…

— Thomas Jefferson

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the…

— Joseph Addison

The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of…

— Kathe Kollwitz

No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss…

— Theodore Roosevelt