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Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness - these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. . . . reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.”

“Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers.”

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Book:The influences of democracy on liberty, property, and the happiness of society, considered

Source: The influences of democracy on liberty, property, and the happiness of society, considered

“It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.”

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Book:Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe

Source: Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe

“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.”

“The amount of electricity that has been saved in spite of Vice President Cheney saying that efficiency is only a moral virtue ... and that you need increased supply like ANWR-is two ANWRs worth of energy.”

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Author:Stephen Schneider

“To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.”

Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.”

Men Liberty Moral Chains Proportion Appetite Virtuous Disposition Qualified Civil Liberties Moral Virtues Controlling Power

Book:The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His Works

Source: The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His Works

“Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security.”

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Book:Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

Source: Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

“Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.”

“Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

“Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that “the country will be in the hands of white Gaucho savages instead of copper-coloured Indians. The former being a little superior in education, as they are inferior in every moral virtue.”

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Book:Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

Source: Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

“The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.”

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Author:Jean-Baptiste Joseph Emile Montegut

“The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge, strength of judgment, and moral virtues-while at the same time conveying to them the spiritual heritage of the nation and the civilization in which they are involved.”

Humans Persons Spiritual Young Nations Process Moral Virtue Involved Civilization Shapes Judgment Aim Guides Heritage Conveying Moral Virtues Aim Of Education

Author:Jacques Maritain

“Let Christ turn your natural optimism into Christian hope, your energy into moral virtue, your good will into genuine self-sacrificin g love! This is the path you are called to take. This is the path to overcoming all that threatens hope, virtue and love in your lives and in your culture. In this way your youth will be a gift to Jesus and to the world.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in our time are not to bring human history to an abrupt, unpleasant and discreditable end.”

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Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.”

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Book:Summa Theologica, Volume 1

Source: Summa Theologica, Volume 1

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