I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

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

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

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

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

The ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

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

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

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

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.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

Abortion is clearly wrong.

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

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

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.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.