Quotes About Ethics

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

Does freedom of speech give the right to offend?

Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

Freedom does not mean license.

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.

Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.

Freedom without virtue isn't freedom - it will eventually destroy a society.

Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

The only devils in the world are those running around in our own hearts - that is where the battle should be fought.

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

No one has the right to live without being shocked.

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.