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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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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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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit…
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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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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
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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…
— Samuel Johnson
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The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue,…
— Benjamin Rush
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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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Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
— Benjamin Rush
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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,…
— Edmund Burke
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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…
— 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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