Country Quote by Joseph Addison

No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Virtue is necessary to a republic.

— Baron de Montesquieu

“Virtue is too passive, too narrow. Virtue can motivate individuals, but for groups, societies, a whole civilisation, it’s a weak force. Nations are never…

— Ian McEwan

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

Nationalism, like virtue, has its own reward.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind, but by…

— Swami Vivekananda

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there…

— John Adams

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

— Theodore Parker

Virtue is too often merely local.

— Samuel Johnson

Virtue in its grandest aspect is neither more nor less than following reason.

— Laozi

If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran's. The…

— Dinesh D'Souza