Vice Quotes

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

As his vice president for eight years, I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.