"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."

Virtue, Public

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"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."

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"No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased."

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"In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown."

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