Quotes about Morality

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

To educate a person without teaching ethics is to create a menace to society.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of Decency.

We must exercise the largest charity towards the wrong-doer that is compatible with relentless war against the wrong-doing. We must be just to others, generous to others, and yet we must realize that it is a shameful and a wicked thing not to withstand oppression with high heart and ready hand.

But we must keep steadily in mind that no people were ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.

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.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.