Despite its evocation of republican virtues, this was a commission by the royal government, which David insisted on painting in Rome.

Cicero became John Adams's "foremost model of public service, republican virtue, and forensic eloquence."

Democrats believed that opening up more land for yeoman farmers was critical for the success of republican virtue.

"I place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared."

How did our country, founded in republican virtue and mistrust of a king, end up with what looks so much like a royal court?

Americans were the protectors of liberty, they had a greater obligation and destiny to assert republican virtue.

Ramsay called on citizens to demonstrate republican virtues in helping reform and improve society.

Washington was always the exemplar of republican virtue in America.

During the Imperial era the stoic Cato became the symbol of lost republican virtue.

Iraq is not just about whether the United States can retain its republican virtue in a wicked world.