Thursday, May 8, 2025

Founders Quotes, 5-6 May 2025

Two quotes on virtue from Benjamin Franklin and George Washington....

Franklin: Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. - letter to John Alleyne — 1768

Washington: There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained. - First Inaugural Address, 1789

Virtue is a dying art in modern society; too many of us seek out the vices but not the virtues...and you wonder why things are so rotten at times? That's one reason of many.

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