The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel full of the knowledge of God of examples of virtues and of correction of vices of the end of this life and of the life to come.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

No power in society no hardship in your condition can depress you keep you down in knowledge power virtue influence but by your own consent.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Here again as I conceive gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

Republics are created by the virtue public spirit and intelligence of the citizens. They fall when the wise are banished from the public councils because they dare to be honest and the profligate are rewarded because they flatter the people in order to betray them.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor admired his uncommon virtue and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.

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.