Approval Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

— Anonymous

Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too…

— Edmund Burke

[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than…

— Algernon Sidney

“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes...was never mine. It…

— Thomas Jefferson

Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

“noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”

— Charles Dickens

The great majority of people have a strong need for authority which they can admire, to which they can submit, and which dominates and…

— Sigmund Freud

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

— Lech Walesa

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and…

— Sigmund Freud

“The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to— for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do…

— Henry David Thoreau

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

— Andrew Carnegie

If an uncompromising stand is to be smeared as 'extremism,' then that smear is directed at any devotion to values, any loyalty to principles,…

— Ayn Rand