It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity.
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.
Failing to see the point is not a virtue.
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Anwar al-Awlaki was a U.S. citizen by virtue of his birth in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 1971 while his Yemeni father was studying at New Mexico State University.
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
Integrity is a very important and an almost indispensable virtue that all leaders must possess. This is especially true in the Philippine context because we Filipinos really respond to leadership by example.
The notion that patience is a virtue is something you don't fully appreciate until you're a parent. You need endless patience with little ones.
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.
Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children.
Impatience is a virtue.
The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis.
No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.