The greatest leader is not the the one who necessarily does the greatest things. He is the one who gets people to do the greatest things. He is
Protecting your virtue you have to learn to say no.
- Topic: Virtue
More Quotes from Ronald Reagan
Either you will control your government, or government will control you.
I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.
Now what should happen when you make a mistake is this: You take your knocks, you learn your lessons and then you move on. That’s the healthiest way to deal with a problem.
The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
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Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Moral virtue is the child of habit.
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
