If the vice president thinks it's disgraceful for an unmarried woman to bear a child, and if he believes that a woman cannot adequ...ately raise a child without a father, then he'd better make sure that abortion remains safe and legal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I begin to find out that nothing but virtue will do in this damned world. I am tolerably sick of vice which I have tried in its ag...reeable varieties, and mean on my return to cut all my dissolute acquaintance and leave off wine and "carnal company," and betake myself to politics and Decorum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit ...of justice is no virtue!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from ...every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursua...nt to our individual organization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »