Integrity has no need of rules.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Of two evils, choose neither.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

As Bromberger observed, rules are understood to be elements of the computational systems that determine the sound and meaning of the infinite array of expressions of a language; the information so derived is accessed by other systems in language use.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

Anger cannot be dishonest.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.