Quotes about Morality
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.
— James Montgomery Boice
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
the better angels of our nature
— Abraham Lincoln
War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
— Martin Luther
The more laws, the less justice.
— Cicero
Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
— Edmund Burke
A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.
— Theodore Roosevelt
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
— Abraham Lincoln
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
— Euripides
One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.
— Wendell Berry
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
— Henry David Thoreau