Dee R. Edgeworth

“the republican revolution was the greatest utopian movement in American history. The revolutionaries aimed at nothing less than a reconstruction of American society....They sought to reconstruct a society and governments based on virtue and distinterested public leadership and to set in motion a moral movement that would eventually be felt around the globe.”
― Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution

“There was then, an American tradition of morality and virtues. As Americans, wrote former U.S. Congresswoman and Author Clare Luce Booth, we can proudly say that the traditional moral values of our society have been a reflection, however imperfect, of this universal morality. All of our great men, all of our heroes, have been exemplars of some, if not all, of these virtues.”
― Dee R. Edgeworth, The High Ground: Why Civic Virtue Matters to America

“What can we do to promote a return to traditional values and beliefs? First, we must have private virtue in our personal lives. We cannot change America or the world if we do not live those virtues in our private lives. We can start the transformation in our own homes and communities and in our interactions with others.”
― Dee Edgeworth

“So now we are ready to ask: In what direction can we say that Americans are going? Are we, as a people, going on the high road of universal morality or on the low road of universal immorality? The question is a crucial one for the future of our country. All history bears witness to the fact that there can be no public virtue without private morality. There can be no good government except in a good society. And there cannot be a good society unless the majority of the individuals in it are at least trying to be good people.”
― Clare Luce Booth, Is the New Morality Destroying America