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“General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan.”

People States Ability Decision United United States Virtue Stones Circles Interviews Allies Afghanistan Rolling Commanders Rolling Stones Strategist

Author:Jim Talent

“Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.”

States Virtue Mines Gold Endure Riches Wicked Owners Righteous

Author:Solon

“The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.”

States Virtue Exercise Saint Perpetual Serving Others Constancy Mortification

Book:Letters to Persons in the World

Source: Letters to Persons in the World

“A happy but miserable state in which man finds himself from time to time; sometimes he believes he is happy by loving, then suddenly he finds how miserable he is. It is all joy, it sweetens life, but it does not last. It comes and goes, but when it is active, there is no greater virtue, because it makes one supremely happy.”

Men Love Believe Doe Sometimes States Lasts Joy Virtue Greater Active Miserable Comes And Goes

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“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.”

“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”

States Christian Order Support Virtue Importance Encouragement Sensible Piety Support And Encouragement

Author:John Hancock

“A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.”

“There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes.”

Mind Mean Two States Certain Three Virtue Vices Extremes State Of Mind Excess Defects

Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the joy of being worn down and tired out with laughter, is a success to be won by no man save in virtue of a rare staying-power. Laughter becomes extreme only if it be consecutive. There must be no pauses for recovery. Touch-and-go humour, however happy, is not enough. The jester must be able to grapple his theme and hang on to it, twisting it this way and that, and making it yield magically all manner of strange and precious things.”

Source: And Even Now

“Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.”

Soul States Natural Virtue Complexion

Book:Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter

Source: Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter

“In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.”

States Force Virtue Revolution Needed Dictator

Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice.”

States Political Justice Virtue Claims Legitimacy

Author:Alan Ryan

“What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.”

May States Felt Virtue Authority Weakness Court Simplicity London Reform Manners Isolation Enlightened Defects Renewal Multiplicity Salons

Book:The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution