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Virtue Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of…
- I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and…
- History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.
- I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but…
- No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education…
- The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
- Without virtue, happiness cannot be.
- It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we…
- To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens...this brings us to the point at which…
- If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of…
- Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts…
- I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared
- Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never…
- Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen, people, whose breasts he has made his…
- I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect…
- My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.
- 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…
- There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and…
- I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our…
- When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of…
- A cold-blooded, calculation, unprincipled, usurper, without a virtue, no statesman, knowing nothing of commerce, political economy, or civil government, and supplying ignorance by bold presumption.
- Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
- In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the…
- I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I…
More Virtue Quotes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- 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
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine