Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [281-300] of 368 Virtue quotesVirtue QuotesVirtue Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes So our record of living our values and letting our values be an inspiration to others I think is clear. And I don't think I have anything to be ashamed of or apologize for with respect to what America has done for the world. We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home ... to live our own lives in peace.~ General Colin Powell No one is free who is not master of himself.~ Pythagoras There is no limit to what you can accomplish if you don't care who gets the credit.~ Ronald Reagan A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.~ Franklin D. Roosevelt The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind -- men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others -- men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.~ Franklin D. Roosevelt To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.~ Theodore Roosevelt No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.~ Theodore Roosevelt We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.~ Theodore Roosevelt It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.~ Murray N. Rothbard There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle. In concentrating on the ends of choice, the conservative, by neglecting the conditions of choice, loses that very morality of conduct with which he is so concerned. And the libertarian, by concentrating only on the means, or conditions, of choice and ignoring the ends, throws away an essential moral defense of his own position.~ Murray N. Rothbard The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty.~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.~ Dr. Benjamin Rush The only foundation for... a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.~ Dr. Benjamin Rush To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.~ John Ruskin Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.~ John Ruskin It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.~ Bertrand Russell The earth becomes more crowded, and our dependence upon our neighbours becomes more intimate. In these circumstances life cannot remain tolerable unless we learn to let each other alone in all matters that are not of immediate and obvious concern to the community. We must learn to respect each other's privacy, and not to impose our moral standards upon each other. The Puritan imagines that his moral standard is the moral standard; he does not realize that other ages and other countries, and even other groups in his own country, have moral standards different from his, to which they have as good a right as he has to his. Unfortunately, the love of power which is the natural outcome of Puritan self-denial makes the Puritan more executive than other people, and makes it difficult for others to resist him. Let us hope that a broader education and a wider knowledge of mankind may gradually weaken the ardour of our too virtuous masters.~ Bertrand Russell Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.~ Lord Herbert Louis Samuel Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.~ William Saroyan I am not free until I say so. And there's a good chance I am going to have to fight once I do. Ever since I declared my Independence, I have had to support and defend it.~ Eric Schaub Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print