We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

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.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

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.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

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 object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them.

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

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

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

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

The effort to try to present the Social Security program as if it’s a major problem, that’s just a hidden way of trying to undermine and destroy it.

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I’m the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

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

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

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

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

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.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

It is right to give every man his due.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

Don’t hold against me that I don’t own – that I don’t own a single stock or bond. Don’t hold it – I have no savings accounts.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.