Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

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

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.

Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

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.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

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

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

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

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

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

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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

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.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

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

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

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.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

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.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Live truth instead of professing it.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

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

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.