decency quotes

Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

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

I don’t do any vulgar movements.