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“To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.”

Country Father Virtue Citizens Preserves Patriotism

Author:Seneca the Younger

“I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.”

Thinking Wells Children Mother Father Sin Virtue Written

Author:Charles Dickens

“The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.”

Christian Religion Father Sin Virtue Generations Succeed

Book:Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement ... Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of the republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of youth; in both these instances our fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory.”

“My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.”

Mother Father Christ Virtue Violence Spokes Feminine Complaints Childlike

Author:Saint Augustine

“Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our goodwill to mankind.”

Source: Essays Moral and Humorous: Also Essays on Imagination and Taste

“Loving your homeland is just as natural as loving your father or mother - after all, your country nourishes you, protects you, and in many ways makes you who you are. Just as it's a virtue to honor your parents, it's a good and admirable thing to honor the land you call home.”

Way Country Home Mother Father Parent Natural Virtue Land Honor Protect Who You Are Homeland Admirable Loving You Protect You

Book:The American Patriot's Almanac: Daily Readings on America

Source: The American Patriot's Almanac: Daily Readings on America

“Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy, doubt (called by Galileo the father of invention), be in religion what the priests term it, the greatest of sins?”

Philosophy Father Term Sin Virtue Doubt Invention Priests

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure, thrills, and self-indulgence.”

“In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.”

Littles Care Father Virtue Influence News Aim Judgement Expenses Our Father

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?”

Hope Father Virtue Climbs Heritage Footsteps

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche