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

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

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

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the ‚Dust and Ashes Act,‘ any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

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

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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

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

When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been ‚lost‘ or stolen.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

What I think we need to do is pass a bill that says number one, you own your data. Number two, you can license it to Facebook but the licensing has to be knowing, it has to be willful.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

We’ve become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that’s been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

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

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

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Man, all lives matter.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

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.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

I worked with Congress on legislation, gave speeches to CEOs, military generals and Hollywood executives. But I also worked to ensure that my efforts would resonate with kids and families – and that meant doing things in a creative and unconventional way. So, yeah, I planted a garden and hula-hooped on the White House lawn with kids.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

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

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Politics have no relation to morals.

We moralize among ruins.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.