Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [261-280] of 368 Virtue quotesVirtue QuotesVirtue Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.~ Friedrich Nietzsche In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.~ Friedrich Nietzsche Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.~ Richard M. Nixon Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.~ Northwest Ordinance, Article III, 1787 There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any over-large concentration of like-minded individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.~ P. J. O'Rourke If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat -- in other words, turn you into an adult.~ P. J. O'Rourke Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor. (I see the better way, and approve it; I follow the worse.)~ Ovid What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.~ Thomas Paine When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.~ Thomas Paine Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness.~ Thomas Paine Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.~ Thomas Paine Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.~ Isabel Paterson You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.~ Alan Paton I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.~ General George S. Patton, Jr. Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.~ Westbrook Pegler A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it.~ William Penn To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.~ William Penn Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.~ St. Peter Money, it has been said, is the cause of good things to a good man, of evil things to a bad man.~ Philo of Alexandria Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.~ Plato Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print