Quotes about Morality

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!

What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

The genius of the United States of America is Christian in the broadest sense, and its destiny is to remain Christian. This carries no sectarian meaning with it, but relates to a basic principle which differs from other principles in that it provides for liberty with morality, and pledges society to a code of relations based on fundamental Christian conceptions of human rights and duties.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.