Without Virtue Quotes
25 quotes by 19 authors
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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…
— Edmund Burke
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The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue…
— Benjamin Rush
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
— Moliere
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It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
— Benjamin Rush
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Without virtue, happiness cannot be.
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.
— Richard Henry Lee
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No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.
— Andrew Jackson
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds…
— Samuel Johnson
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
— Edmund Burke
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The virtuous carry out the settlement, but those without virtue pursue their claims.
— Laozi
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[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.
— Samuel Williams
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In a despotic government, the only principle by which the tyrant who is to move the whole machine means to regulate and manage the people…
— Samuel Williams
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Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem
— Jane Porter
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Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly…
— George Washington
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Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.
— Peter Kreeft
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I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. ... I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created;…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.
— Rush Limbaugh
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
— Daniel Webster
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People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can…
— Charles Colson
Who Wrote These Without Virtue Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 25 Without Virtue Quotes as follows: