Virtue Quotes

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Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of… — Alexander Hamilton
The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws. — Alexander Hamilton
It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and… — Alexander Hamilton
Would they not fear that citizens not less tenacious than conscious of their rights would flock from the remotest extremes of their respective states to… — Alexander Hamilton
We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free,… — Samuel Adams
I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . . the term "mores"… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It is . . . [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as… — George Washington
Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless… — George Washington
The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would… — Thomas Jefferson
It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they… — Mercy Otis Warren
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within… — James Madison
The so-called Christian virtues of humility, love, charity, personal freedom, the strong prohibitions against violence, murder, stealing, lying, cruelty-all these are washed away by war.… — John T. Flynn
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter… — Alexander Cockburn
Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us. — Iris Murdoch
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and… — Lord Byron
I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are… — Carl Jung
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near… — Edward Dahlberg
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it… — Samuel Johnson
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want,… — Joan Didion
Virtue is its own reward. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Laziness is a programmers main virtue. — Larry Wall
There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots of… — Ronald Reagan
Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and… — Mary McCarthy

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