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Hillary's [Clinton] policies on climate change are a problem too. We ignore her track record at our peril. — Jill Stein

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue. — David Hume

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens. — Mark Kingwell

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give
you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour. — Thomas Jefferson

A minister who is much before the public has need to be thick skinned, and to exercise to a very high degree the virtue of longsuffering. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue. — Plato

When was public virtue to be found when private was not? — William Cowper

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public. — John Adams

In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue. — James Q. Wilson

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality. — Clare Boothe Luce

Suspicion is a virtue as long its object is the preservation of public good — Patrick Henry

I just want to work with the best people I can get my hands on. — Jason Winston George

Public symbols matter. They are one of the ways we tell each other, and the world, what we honor. — Michael W. McConnell

Voting is proof that gullibility has been certified as a public virtue. — ABifarelli

Are you going to eat her here, Mr. Rand, or should I prepare her to go? — Mur Lafferty

The guys can't take their eyes off Colleen ... one of them ... probably sees her just like I do, she's the gatekeeper to another world. — Ron Koertge

I'm an entertainer. I don't go round saying I'm a paragon of virtue, so that is clearly not in the public interest. — Steve Coogan

Churches are no more relevant because they haven't balanced there teachings. — Sunday Adelaja

Works of art are landscapes of the mind. — Ted Godwin

When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form — John Adams

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The virtues of your character is more important the public opinion. — Sunday Adelaja

Piety in private is superior to piety in public. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue. — John Locke

In all of your relationships, romantic or not, GIVE. Practice it. You get good at what you practice, and sometimes you even become great. — Ilya Atani

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth. — George Holyoake

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. — Felix Adler

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. — John Adams

There is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.' — Benjamin Franklin

What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue. — John Marshall

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him. — William Hazlitt

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. — Mark Twain