"In a virtuous community men of sense and principles will always be placed at the head of affairs. In a declining state of public morals men will be so blinded to their true interests as to put the incapable and unworthy at the helm. It is therefore vain to complain of the follies of crimes of a government. We must lay our hands on our own hearts and say, Here is the sin that makes the public sin."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1830
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