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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor…
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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with…
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Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
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I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and…
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than…
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as…
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I cannot say to you what is right or wrong. I can say only one thing to you: be conscious - that…
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Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
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According to great masters, there is no sin and there is no virtue. There is only one thing: that is awareness. If…
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It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object ,…
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Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.
— William C. Bryant
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it…
— Michel de Montaigne
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If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the…
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It is a sad thing that in the unfortunate times in which we live, the purest life, the most incontestable virtue, cannot…
— Alexander Dumas
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