Virtue

"There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent."

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

"It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen."

"The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue."

"It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government."

"Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."

"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."

"People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous."

"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved."