Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution Quotes

“themselves than as symptoms of a deeper malaise. The Framers are said to have held to a set of ideas that hearkened all the way back to the fall of the Roman Republic. This tradition, known as classical republicanism, insisted that no republic could survive unless its citizens remained virtuous—willing to sacrifice themselves for the community.”
― Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution