Francis Grund Quote

I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter of industry, as a stimulus to enterprise and as the most powerful restraint of public vice.... No government could be established on the same principle as that of the United States with a different code of morals.

The Americans: In Their Moral, Social, and Political Relations (ed. 1837)

I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter of industry, as a...

I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter of industry, as a...

I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter of industry, as a...

I consider the domestic virtue of the Americans as the principle source of all their other qualities. It acts as a promoter of industry, as a...