The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

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

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 influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

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

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

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

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

A lie cannot live.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

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

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.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.

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

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.