"Is the present state of the national republic enough? Is virtue the principle of our government? Is honor? Or is ambition and avarice, adulation, baseness, covetousness, the thirst for riches, indifference concerning the means of rising and enriching, the contempt of principle, the spirit of party and of faction the motive and principle that governs?"
Excerpt of a letter from John Adams to Benjamin Rush, February 6, 1805. From the book John Adams by David McCullough.
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