Battle Quote by William Benton Clulow

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

— Charles Sumner

The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced - that without…

— George Henry Lewes

“wisdom, courage, temperance, fortitude and all those qualities that can command the admiration of noble minds, is not surpassed in the history of any…

— Peter Marshall

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier…

— Honore de Balzac

I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source…

— George Washington

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt,…

— Adam Smith

What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly…

— Raymond Chandler

“The greatest intellectual and moral offense the modern intellectual can be found guilty of is that of seeming to think or act outside what…

— Robert A. Nisbet

The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind.

— C. S. Lewis

Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the…

— George Washington

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing…

— Aristotle

Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley