Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

You don't have to have special skills to be a hero. You just have to do what's right, despite the cost.

What's fair ain't necessarily right

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Why has he taken this job?... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know of honour and dishonour anyway? For himself then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.