Quotes 61 till 80 of 162.
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If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
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In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.
On December 1, 2007, at Heartland Democratic Forum -
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
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Luxury
Employ'd a Million of the Poor,
And odious Pride a Million more;
Envy it self, and Vanity,
Were Ministers of Industry;
Their darling Folly, Fickleness,
In Diet, Furniture and Dress,
That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made
The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade.The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 180, p. 10 -
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
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Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about ''character issues.'' Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
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No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.
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Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
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Not to know vice at all, and keep true state,
Is virtue, and not fate:
Next to that virtue is to know vice well,
And her black spite expel.The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio Epode, lines 1-4.
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