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Virtue Quotes by Edmund Burke
- Our patience will achieve more than our force.
- When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without…
- Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
- All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
- Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
- Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all…
- The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
- The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist…
- It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt…
- Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their…
- If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
- Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave…
- Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them…
- Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
- Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
- I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the…
- Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.
- The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends…
- That cardinal virtue, temperance.
- True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
- I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.
- "What is liberty without...virtue? It is...madness, without restraint. Men are qualified for liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their…
- The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat.
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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
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
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- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine