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

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

I love being in a courtroom.

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

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

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

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

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.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

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

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

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.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

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

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

I do not pilfer victory.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

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.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

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

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

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

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

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

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

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 makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

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.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.