Quotes About Ethics

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

In government, the scum rises to the top.

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

There can be no good character in civil government if there is none in the people. You cannot make a good omelet with bad eggs.

The federal and state governments should ban the use of taxpayer funds to support cloning and embryonic stem cell research.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

I realize that I cannot stand by silently as my government executes its citizens. If I do not speak out and resist, I am an accomplice.

If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.

I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.

The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.

We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.

I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government.

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.