Dee’s 2023 Year in Books
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The High Ground: Why Civic Virtue Matters to America
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Book review for The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth
Fictional works are not my favorite genre but I enjoyed The Absentee because the protagonists Lord Colambre and and his love interest Grace are models of high moral standards in spite of being surrounded by those who prefer to take the low road. It was nice to read a book where goodness and virtue prevail to help the poor underclass so abused by agents of the Absentee landlord. I am drawn to books
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Another classic work by David McCullough. As an author I was impressed by his command of the engineering details for building the bridge. Although the author is comfortable with the engineering issues he faces the social issues of corruption and contr ...more |
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Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
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“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.”
― The High Ground: Why Civic Virtue Matters to America
― The High Ground: Why Civic Virtue Matters to America
“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.”
― The High Ground: Why Civic Virtue Matters to America
― The High Ground: Why Civic Virtue Matters to America
“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.”
― The Radicalism of the American Revolution
― 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.”
― The High Ground: Why Civic Virtue Matters to America
― 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.”
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“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.”
― Is the New Morality Destroying America
― Is the New Morality Destroying America
“These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.”
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