No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

The ‚morality of compromise‘ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

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

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

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

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

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.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Every loss of life is terrible.

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

Sin is geographical.

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

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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

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.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

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

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

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

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

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

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

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

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Honor is the reward of virtue.