Among others, Madison was referring to the civic virtues the ancient Greeks had identified hundreds of years earlier. The ...

The quote comes from the Cicero’s essay on friendship. In the essay, Cicero basically says in his essay that the number of people who truly possess virtue is less than what it appears to be, so stop ...

I’m not gaining weight. I’m not slowing down. I’m not out of shape. But I was. The scale in my bathroom and the notches on my belt don’t lie. Those bastards are truth tellers. So about a ...

We do not, either as individuals or as a religious movement, possess an inherent virtue that should entitle any of us to rule. We shun the will to power because we rightly fear our own sin ...

The economy of spoken words is a virtue that few today seem to possess. Many "big talkers" believe that being verbose and using many words without saying anything is their strength and charm.

As Madison wrote in Federalist 57: “The aim of every political Constitution is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers, men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue the ...