I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

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

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

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

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

Of two evils, choose neither.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

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

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

You get to a point where it’s like you can’t really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

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

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the ‚sense of utter irresponsibility‘ shown by the demonstrators.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

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

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

It is right to give every man his due.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

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?

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

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

Justice is truth in action.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

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.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

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

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.