Quotes About Ethics

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.

We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do.

The worst government is the most moral.

Businesses should be focused on business and social responsibility should be government responsibility.

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.

US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government.

I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.

No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law.

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.

Good government is good politics.

My first warning is to my government officers to not presume citizens as thieves.

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.

Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients.

No, I'm not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.

I'd shrink government in a minute, if I could shrink GM, Bank of America, and all these immoral corporations that operate by an undemocratic code, with no soul and no conscience.

Government-run schools can't instill morals and character.

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.