Quotes About Morality

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.

People who have no vices, have very few virtues.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer

The most altruistic man is the most selfish.

Let [the Constitution] be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges, let it be written in primers, in spelling books and in almanacs, let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.

If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad

Both [North and South] read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has His own purposes.

Peu importe ce que vous êtes. Soyez bons.

Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freemen.

let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty.

Quando faccio bene mi sento bene. Quando faccio male mi sento male. Questa è la mia religione.

I am not at all concerned about whose side God is on, for I know the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

Hãy quy?t tâm s?ng chân th?t trong m?i sá»±; n?u b?n th?y mình không th? tr? thành má»™t lu?t sÆ° trung thá»±c, thì hãy c? s?ng trung thá»±c mà không c?n ph?i làm lu?t sÆ°.

People without any vices rarely have any virtues either.

I do the very best I know how—the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.

Menschen, die keine Laster haben, haben auch nur wenige Tugenden.

guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Earp forced Kowalsky into a back room, pulled out a revolver, and told the lawyer to get ready to meet his maker. Kowalsky's jowly face dropped onto his chest and he dozed off. Earp stormed from the room, saying, "What can you do with a man who goes to sleep just when you're going to kill him!