Quotes about Moral Principles

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man.

What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.

At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

There were few who preferred honor to money.

If money is the only plus, I will always say no. But, if there's more, than I'm down.

But few prize honour more than money.

We all do stuff we think is right. Irrespective rules, drama or money.

When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.'

If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

We believe that peace is hard-won, That sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace. But more than that, we believe that Justice is more important than peace.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

Find out the difference between ethics and morality, but never forget to be kind.

Let us not be judged by actions, but by means.