Character Quote by John Adams

There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great goods without…

— Clinton Rossiter

Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded; it is a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

— Aristotle

Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render…

— James Madison

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that…

— Diogenes

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that…

— William Blake

Virtue alone is happiness below.

— Alexander Pope

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

— Benjamin Rush

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

— Walter Lippmann

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

— Aristotle

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge