Quotes about Moral Principles

will side in favor of Rav Safra's action in the debate.

The ethical is always more robust than the legal. Over time, it is the legal that should converge to the ethical, never the reverse. Laws come and go; ethics stay.

The sanctity of the law . . . and the wisdom to know when it must be broken.

a man cannot make himself believe a lie just because it profits him. Men

We never did hang the wrong one but once or twice, and them fellers needed to be hung anyhow jes' on general principles. -A NAMELESS JUDGE IN THE OLD WEST

Conservatives who defend libertinism as liberty misunderstand what our Founding Fathers meant. We all love freedom. But freedom has a higher purpose, as should conservatives.

The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.

Our moral compass - it's always been Judeo-Christian.

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

More law, less justice.

Fred looked at me grimly. "It's not right," he said. "It is," I Said. "What's right and what's permitted are sometimes different things.

The more moral your life is the more you live for long ceteris paribus

The personal practice of virtues was always deemed different from the hard action that politics sometimes necessitates.

A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job.

An unused conscience is no conscience at all.

Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.

A president's hardest task is not to do what's right, but to know what's right.

There's a difference between right and regs sometimes. That's why regs can change, but right doesn't.

All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer. You go to Sunday-school to learn what

All my reading and studying of them has taught me that law is one thing and right is another thing. Ask any lawyer.

What is not good enough for you is not good enough for other men, and there's no more to be said.

There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.

For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas