To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. — James Madison Copy Share Image
[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Man may rest in the eternal fitness; he may abide in the everlasting; and roam from the beginning to the end of… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he… — William Ames Copy Share Image
Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of;… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“Now I want you to remember something because I don't think we shall meet again very soon. It is this; however fashionable… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Prayer by its nature is communion and union of man with God; by its action it is the reconciliation of man with… — Ignatius Bryanchaninov Copy Share Image
We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Only the virtuous can count on life, the pursuer of evil can only ever count on death.” — Travis Berketa Copy Share Image
Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself. — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
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