Adherence Quote by Patrick Henry Download Open image “Bad men cannot make good citizens.” — Patrick Henry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adherence American citizens American liberty Bad man Citizens Good citizen Men Nigeria independence Recurrence Tyrants
Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones. — Polybius Copy Share Image
You ought to be extremely cautious, watchful, jealous of your liberty; for instead of securing your rights, you may lose them forever. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
My great objection to this government is, that it does not leave us the means of defending our rights, or of waging war against… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“When the American Spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different; Liberty, sir, was then the primary object.” — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps? — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Being a Christian... is a character which I prize far above all this world has or can boast. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
No one is born with good character; it's not a hereditary trait. And it isn't determined by a single noble act. Character is established… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Having been brought up with a definition of faith as adherence to a set of beliefs, I have more and more begun to turn… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Some communities will be abandoned, others will struggle along, others will split, others will flourish, gain members, and be duplicated elsewhere. Each community must… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and tradition, he… — William Howard Schuman Copy Share Image
It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this sentiment generally admitted we… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
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