He has committed the crime who profits by it.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

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

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

I do the dishes every night – other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Morality is contraband in war.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

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

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

We’ve become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that’s been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.