Lady Cincinnatus: American Virtue

Monday, June 22, 2009

American Virtue

"It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government." ~George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796

"What is virtue if not the free choice of what is good?" Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy in America, 1835

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