Virtue Quotes

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If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security. — Samuel Adams
No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous. — Samuel Johnson
...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the… — Noah Webster
[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . . — Algernon Sidney
[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by… — Algernon Sidney
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear:… — Algernon Sidney
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney
If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the… — Algernon Sidney
No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism. — Andrew Jackson
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt… — Edmund Burke
When was public virtue to be found when private was not? — William Cowper
Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong. — William Penn
If men be good, government cannot be bad. — William Penn
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been… — Douglas MacArthur
[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of… — Henry David Thoreau
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state. — Ronald Reagan
Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues. — George Will
To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists… — Victor Hugo
...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as… — Charles Darwin
For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward. — Charles Kingsley
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… — Edmund Burke
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C.… — Carl Sagan

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