Quotes about Virtue
At present, likewise, there are among Christians new Stoics who think it a vice not only to groan and weep, but even to be sad or upset. And indeed, these ridiculous ideas generally come from idle men.
- John Calvin
So long as we do not look beyond the earth, we are quite pleased with our own righteousness, wisdom, and virtue; we address ourselves in the most flattering terms, and seem only less than demigods.
- John Calvin
Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.
- John Calvin
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
- John Donne
As virtuous men pass mildly away And whisper to their souls, to goe, While some of their friends doe say, The breath goes now, and some say, no: So let us melt, and make no noise...
- John Donne
O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice
- Philip Yancey
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.
- St. Augustine
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
- St. Augustine
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
- James Madison
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
- Thomas Jefferson
Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
- George Washington
While the people retain their virtue, and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government, in the short space of four years.
- Abraham Lincoln