Quotes about Ethics

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

Political Liberty consists in the power of doing whatever does not injure another. The exercise of the natural rights of every [human], has no other limits than those which are necessary to secure to every other [human] the free exercise of the same rights.

Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

Let it then be heard, and let man learn to feel that the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity, and not on conquest.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

It is not because right principles have been violated, that they are to be abandoned.