Quotes about Virtue
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
— St. Augustine
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
— James Madison
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
— Thomas Jefferson
Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
— George Washington
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.
— Abraham Lincoln
You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.
— James Faust
Happiness is a moral obligation.
— Dennis Prager
Purity of morals is the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country.
— George Washington
There is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
— George Washington
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.
— Aristotle
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
— Joseph Addison
For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.
— Cicero