Quotes about Morality

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.

The answer of Solon on the question, 'Which is the most perfect popular govemment,' has never been exceeded by any man since his time, as containing a maxim of political morality, 'That,' says he, 'where the least injury done to the meanest individual, is considered as an insult on the whole constitution.

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.

It is a duty incumbent on every true deist, that he vindicates the moral justice of God against the calumnies of the Bible.

Here, then, is the origin and rise of government: namely, a mode rendered necessary by inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz, freedom and security.

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

There may be many systems of religion that so far from being morally bad are in many respects morally good: but there can be but ONE that is true; and that one necessarily must, as it ever will, be in all things consistent with the ever existing word of God that we behold in his works. But such is the strange construction of the christian system of faith, that every evidence the heavens affords to man, either directly contradicts it or renders it absurd. It