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Taylor Branch

“The principle, the identity of private morality and public conscience, is as deeply rooted in our tradition and Constitution as the principle of legal separation,” he declared. “Washington in his first inaugural said that the roots of national policy lay in private morality. Lincoln proclaimed as a national faith that right makes might. Surely this is so.”

Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65
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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 by Taylor Branch
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