Quotes about Moral Principles

My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.

Don't just do what is required, do what is respected then, at you'll know, you did the right thing even if it works out wrong.

Don't just do what is required, do what is respected.

Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

Man must & will have some religion; if he has not the religion of Jesus, he will have the religion of Satan & will erect the synagogue of Satan.

What is morally wrong cannot be politically right.

Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.

the law has neither eyes, nor ears, nor bowels of humanity; and it turns into marble the hearts of all those that are nursed in its principles.

You have to give me something, Seafort. Politics is the art of the possible." Father gazed at the Station. "Sir, I can give you nothing. Morality is ... the art of the absolute.

Practicing deception to conceal one's true goals and regarding moral principles and laws as applicable to others but not to oneself are the core concepts of Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.

Things that Hillary Clinton advocates are antithetical to Christian values: killing babies, redefining institutions established by God.

Virtually all of the civil laws in all of the world's societies are based on what humanity, in the earliest days, believed to be God's Law.

Good morals lead to good laws.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.