I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Saints need sinners.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

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.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called ‚new morality‘ is all right. They say we’re living in a new generation; let’s be relevant, let’s change God’s law. Let’s say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication’s all right under certain circumstances. If it’s ‚meaningful.‘

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

The object of the superior man is truth.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

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.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

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

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.