Quotes about Morality

Freedom does not mean the right to live as we please. It means the power to live spiritually, to rise to a higher level of existence.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer