In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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

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

Man can never be a woman’s equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

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

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

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.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

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.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

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.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

The ‚peace movement‘ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

You’re innocent until proven guilty.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Yes, there is a terrible moral in ‚Dorian Gray‘ – a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

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

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

There are thousands of Palestinians in prison virtually for no reason.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.