Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than…

“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than…”

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust be men of unexceptionable characters. The public cannot be too curious concerning the character of public men.

Year: 1775
Context: Letter to James Warren
Shortlink: http://fq1.us/3j

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Keywords: character, curious, employed, essential, establishment, manners, power, public, public men, unexceptional