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Virtue Quotes by Benjamin Rush
- The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue…
- Without Virtue there can be no liberty
- There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through…
- Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of…
- Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.
- We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal…
- Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of…
- Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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- Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe