It represents the greatest of American virtues: power, strength, endurance and value.

That should be understood at the outset, because knowledge is not an American virtue; luck is.

Now let's not be sentimental about American virtue or scruple.

Regular exercise seems to have taken the highest place in the pantheon of modern American virtues.

He's a wonderful actor, a cultural treasure and an exemplar of the good, plain, American virtues.

And, in their cynicism, they act to undercut traditional American virtues.

If independence and autonomy are among the highest American virtues, then how shall those who have no choice but to depend on others be regarded?

Will people say that artistic freedom is a supreme American virtue, even if it means exposing some warts?

The book traces ambition's transformation from pernicious vice to celebrated American virtue.

Patience has not been an American virtue this year.