Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people and I cannot fear the result.

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played in terms of message discipline in terms of access for reporters and especially in the way that sources and subjects especially famous subjects treat the media almost by default there's more news that's falling into books.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

To enjoy good health to bring true happiness to one's family to bring peace to all one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Used to be conservatives revered the Average American that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food humble faith honest toil and Capraesque virtue.

From faith hope and love the virtues of religion referring to God there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.

Faith is the virtue by which clinging-to the faithfulness of God we lean upon him so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

Faith is the sense of life that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue but more frequently of her experience.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

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

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue where pure and simple manners prevailed the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.

Again it may be said that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue it is sufficient that they love themselves.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I add this that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.