“The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.”

— Bill Moyers

"For America's Sake" speech (12 December 2006), as quoted in Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 21

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