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Virtue

«A state can no more give up part of her sovereignty than a lady can give up part of her virtue»
Author: John Randolph | About: Virtue | Keywords: sovereignty
«Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.»
«All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.»
Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | About: Virtue | Keywords: dealing, justly, summed
«As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.»
«A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau | About: Liberty, Virtue | Keywords: subsists
«And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Virtue | Keywords: rags
«A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues»
«Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood?the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.»
«'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself»
«Assume a virtue if you have it not.»