Character Quote by Samuel Adams

Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.

— George Washington

Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.

— Gouverneur Morris

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

— William Henry Harrison

The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction…

— Samuel 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

Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in…

— John Adams

Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.

— Nhat Hanh

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality.

— Henry Hazlitt

The foundations of liberty are private property and the rule of law; this system guarantees the fewest possible forms of injustice, produces the greatest…

— Mario Vargas Llosa