Quotes with vice-presidency

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  • Cato the Elder Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Dan Quayle One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Harold Rosenberg Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause, it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Bernie Sanders Our job is to do two things - to defeat Donald Trump and to elect Hillary Clinton. It is easy to boo, but it is harder to look your kids in the face if we are living under a Trump presidency.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Frederic Raphael People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
    Frederic Raphael
    American screenwriter, biographer and writer (1931 - )
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  • Abu Bakr Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Henry Fielding Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Bertrand Russell Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Richard Nixon Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Lord George Byron So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bill Parcells So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Boethius So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Winston Churchill Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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