In advocating any measure we must consider not only its justice but its practicability.

If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

Esoteric words neither make us holy nor righteous; only a virtuous life makes us beloved of God. I would rather experience repentance in my soul than know how to define it.

Profound theology doesn't make anyone righteous; what pleases me is an exemplary life. Regret for wrongdoing is better than knowing its definition.

Moral crusaders with zeal but no ethical understanding are likely to give us solutions that are worse than the problems.

To do a great right, you may do a little wrong; and you may take any means which the end to be attained will justify.

Let no man turn aside, even so slightly, from the broad path of honor, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means. Those that cannot, are bad; and may be counted so at once, and left alone.

Altogether, the Old Bailey, at that date, was a choice illustration of the precept, that "Whatever is right;" an aphorism that would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence, that nothing that ever was, was wrong.

I have tried so hard to do right.

I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.

Separation of church and state should never mean separation of God and right.