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

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

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.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

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.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

Most emissions aren’t caused by individuals, they’re caused by corporations and states.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

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.

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

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information – the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

Abortion is clearly wrong.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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.

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

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.