Quotes about Morality

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

I like having fun, but the most important thing is to be as good a person as you can be.

I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

Don't lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!

Those who based decisions on principle, not some snapshot of public opinion, were often vindicated over time.

Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

Unhappy it is, though, to reflect that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast and that the once-happy plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?

Wherein you reprove another be unblameable yourself, for example is more prevalent than precepts.

Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.