Politics have no relation to morals.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It’s because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‚Present‘ or ‚Not guilty.‘

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

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

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

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

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

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

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

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

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

States are not moral agents.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

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

The human race is governed by its imagination.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won’t tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, ‚Well, you know: It’s secret.‘

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

There is no distinctly American criminal class – except Congress.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.