Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [141-160] of 368 Virtue quotesVirtue QuotesVirtue Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue.~ Barry Goldwater The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.~ Baltasar Gracian I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.~ Nathan Hale I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it.~ Judge Learned Hand We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying, "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.~ Sydney J. Harris Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.~ Elizabeth Harrison Lying can never save us from another lie.~ Vaclav Havel No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which one is true.~ Nathaniel Hawthorne From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.~ Friedrich August von Hayek It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.~ Friedrich August von Hayek I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.~ Friedrich August von Hayek The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.~ Friedrich August von Hayek The only vice that can not be forgiven is hypocrisy.~ William Hazlitt Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of freemen. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.~ Patrick Henry It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.~ Patrick Henry The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.~ Granville Hicks There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.~ George Jacob Holyoake I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another.~ Homer Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.~ Herbert Hoover What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of belief; that merit attaches to readiness to believe; that the doubting disposition is a bad one, and skepticism is a sin.~ Thomas Henry Huxley Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print