Quotes about Ethics

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer