Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

It is right to give every man his due.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

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

I don’t use Twitter for bad.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

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

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Evangelicals can’t be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

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

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

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

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.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

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.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

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

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

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

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

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.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

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

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

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

Justice is truth in action.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

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

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

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

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

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.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.