Quotes about Virtue

The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.

It only needs a good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences; we give and take; we remit some rights, that we may enjoy others; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.

I never did think the truth was a crime.

I don't drink alcohol, I don't smoke and if I go out to a movie I like to watch things that are moral.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.