As we begin a new year, it may be useful to look back to one particular piece of advice that George Washington gave us in his farewell address. In paragraph 28, he reminded us that: "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. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?" Receive news alertsHis point was that no matter how well designed our constitutional mechanisms may be,...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/01/04/private_virtue_needed_in_2011_248270.html
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