"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, letter to Mercy Warren, 1776
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