The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Robertson Davies

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
Bodhidharma

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
James Tobin

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.
Nick Clooney

The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony, and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered by a tent.
Julius Wellhausen

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
Ludwig von Mises

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
Samuel Smiles

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
Thomas W. Higginson

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.
Carson McCullers

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.
Plutarch

The want of money is the root of all evil.
Samuel Butler

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau

There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.
Asa Gray

There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
Marion Milner

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.
Mike Schmidt

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Plato

This body, the United States Congress, was united, Republicans and Democrats alike, in taking that action, toppling the Taliban government, and working to try and root out al Qaeda and find Osama bin Laden.
Chris Van Hollen

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Marcus Tullius Cicero