He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard of his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. ... Private and public vices are in reality ... connected. ... Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust be men of unexceptionable characters. The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men. - United States Founding Father, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Father of the American Revolution, Samuel Adams, Samuel Adams, Samuel Adams, The Writings of Samuel Adams, Harry Alonzo Cushing, editor (New York: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1906), Vol. III, pp. 236-237, to James Warren on November 4, 1775.
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