All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science a partnership in all art a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, And can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.
I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.
The only liberty I mean, is a liberty connected with order that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories