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Jun 2015
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3.37- The Republic of Virtue

MIKE DUNCAN
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If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, amid revolution it is at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is impotent.

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