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  • “A free government rests upon public virtue. ”
    John Adams , Letter to Zabdiel Adams · View
  • “Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ”
    George Washington , Diary Entry · View
  • “Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? ”
    George Washington , Diary Entry · View
  • “Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. ”
    George Washington , Diary Entry · View
  • “Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. ”
    George Washington , Diary Entry · View
  • “It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. ”
    George Washington , Diary Entry · View
  • “Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private virtue. ”
    John Adams , Letter to Mercy Otis Warren · View
  • “Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people. ”
    Thomas Jefferson , Notes on the State of Virginia · View
  • “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. ”
    George Washington , Diary Entry · View
  • “The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue. ”
    Benjamin Rush , Essay on Education · View
  • “No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and their minds are to be informed by education what is right and wrong; to be encouraged in virtuous habits and deterred from vice. ”
    Thomas Jefferson , Notes on the State of Virginia · View
  • “Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God. ”
    John Adams , Diary Entry · View
  • “The only foundation for... a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty. ”
    Benjamin Rush , Essay on Education · View
  • “To suppose any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without virtue in the people is a chimerical idea. ”
    James Madison , Speech at Virginia Ratifying Convention · View
  • “Industry and frugality are the means of procuring wealth and securing virtue. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Poor Richard's Almanack · View
  • “Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government... The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. ”
    George Washington , Farewell Address · View
  • “Virtue flows from the example of Christ. ”
    William Paterson , Letter to New Jersey Assembly · View
  • “The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity. ”
    John Adams , Diary Entry · View
  • “The spirit of faction is a natural enemy to public virtue and the common good. ”
    John Adams , Diary Entry · View
  • “Religiongives us glorious views of our relation to Godthat God is loveand he that walketh in love, walketh in God and God in Him. ”
    George Wythe , Attributed in correspondence and legal commentary · View
  • “Liberty is not the daughter but the parent of virtue. ”
    John Dickinson , Letter from a Farmer No. 5 · View
  • “A virtuous People is the best Defense against Tyranny. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Silence Dogood Letter No. 10 · View
  • “He gave me the free Use of his Library to frame great and noble Ideas. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Silence Dogood Letter No. 2 · View
  • “Liberty must be supported by virtue and morality. ”
    John Adams , Letter to Mercy Otis Warren · View
  • “A republic can only be supported by a virtuous and educated citizenry. ”
    Benjamin Rush , Thoughts Upon the Mode of Education · View
  • “Without virtue, there can be no liberty. ”
    Benjamin Rush , Address to the People · View
  • “It is better to take many injuries than to give one. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Letter to Samuel Johnson · View
  • “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. ”
    Thomas Jefferson , The Writings of Thomas Jefferson · View
  • “Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Poor Richards Almanack · View
  • “Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts. ”
    Elizabeth Ann Seton , Collected Writings I · View
  • “I learned that silence could be strength, not weakness. ”
    Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton , My Dear Hamilton · View
  • “The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. ”
    John Adams , Letter to Thomas Jefferson · View
  • “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Speech to the Constitutional Convention · View
  • “Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private virtue, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. ”
    John Witherspoon , Sermon to Congress · View
  • “A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. ”
    James Wilson , Lectures on Law · View
  • “Without virtue, there can be no liberty. ”
    James Wilson , Lectures on Law · View
  • “The spirit of faction is the enemy of public virtue and the ally of selfish ambition. ”
    John Adams , Letter to Jonathan Trumbull · View
  • “The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity. ”
    John Adams , The Works of John Adams · View
  • “A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every districtall studied and appreciatedare the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Letter to Rev. Samuel Cooper · View
  • “I beg leave to return you the thanks of Congress for your polite and friendly address, and to assure you that we shall always be ready to co-operate with our fellow citizens in promoting the cause of religion and virtue. ”
    George Washington , Reply to the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church · View
  • “Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private virtue, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. ”
    John Adams , Letter to Mercy Otis Warren · View
  • “Virtue is near thee, and with gentle hand Would now embrace thee, hovers oer thine head ”
    Phillis Wheatley , On Virtue in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral · View
  • “Wisdom is higher than a fool can reach ”
    Phillis Wheatley , On Virtue in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral · View
  • “But say, ye Muses, why this partial grace, To one alone of Africs sable race; From age to age transmitting thus his name With the finest glory in the rolls of fame? Thy virtues, great Maecenas! shall be sung In praise of him, from whom those virtues sprung. ”
    Phillis Wheatley , To Maecenas in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral · View
  • “Public virtue is the only foundation of republics. ”
    Mercy Otis Warren , History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution · View
  • “The virtue of the people is the true bulwark of liberty. ”
    Mercy Otis Warren , History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution · View
  • “Teach your children virtue, for it will guide them when you cannot. ”
    Mary Ball Washington , Washington Family Papers · View
  • “I make it a rule to read some improving book every day. ”
    Eliza Pinckney , Letters of Eliza Lucas Pinckney · View
  • “I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. ”
    Martha Washington , Personal Letter · View
  • “Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for tis better to be alone than in bad company. ”
    George Washington , Letter to Bushrod Washington · View
  • “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Letter to the Abbs Chalut and Arnaud · View
  • “Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure liberty... if manners are universally corrupt. ”
    Samuel Adams , Letter to James Warren · View
  • “If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslav'd. ”
    Samuel Adams , Letter to James Warren · View
  • “It is the duty of parents... to educate them according to a judicious and zealous regard for their usefulness. ”
    James Wilson , Lectures on Law · View
  • “Virtue and knowledge must be cultivated to preserve our republic. ”
    Roger Sherman , Speech to the Connecticut Assembly · View
  • “A Bible and a newspaper in every house... are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty. ”
    Benjamin Franklin , Letter to Rev. Samuel Cooper · View
  • “The education of youth should be directed to the cultivation of virtue and liberty. ”
    John Jay , Letter to Benjamin Rush · View
  • “All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the education I received from her. ”
    George Washington , Letter to Mary Ball Washington · View
  • “Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. ”
    Samuel Adams , Letter to James Warren · View