Virtue Begins with Knowledge

 

 

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

Horace Mann

 

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Thomas Paine

 

Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea, if there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men.

So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.

James Madison

 

 

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