Quotes about Moral Principles

I don't trade my vote for money.

You can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do." Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1958–1981.

Unfortunately, many today have come to equate morality with political correctness

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I try to shy away from labels and focus on the issues.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.

You have to have integrity.

We have integrity.

I think integrity's important; really important.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

From compromise to deceit is a small step.

Sometimes we face "gray areas," things that aren't necessarily forbidden by the Bible but still may not belong in our lives.

We do not discover the sun; we only recognise it when the clouds are blown and the rain has exhausted itself. So it is in morals—in the light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. We do not discover moral principles by a fingering induction, or in any other way; we merely remove obstructions; we can apply the bellows also and blow the small spark into a mighty flame.

Americans] have realized many things for which the rest of the world is still struggling...[yet] the civilization and the morals of the Americans fall far below their own principles.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.