Liberty Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Liberty People Virtue Virtuous
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
Doing great requires that we become great people, and all of us can become great people. — Les Brown Copy Share Image
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can find common qualities and common values that have made Britain the country it is. Our belief in tolerance and liberty which shines… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I am a woman, and as such, I experience the ever-increasing restrictions on our liberty in our country through the development of Islamic fundamentalism. — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
