Quotes About Ethics

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.

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall

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.

If you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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

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 never had a policy; I have just tried to do my best each and every day.

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.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

Power is tempting, and in a sense no power is greater than the ability to take someone's life.

There was nothing inherently wrong with colonialism, he felt, if its administration was fair and just. He

Sir Archibald Bodkin (best known to history as the man who later would get James Joyce's novel Ulysses banned from publication in postwar England), thundered accusingly that "war will become impossible if all men were to have the view that war is wrong.

ivory in the nineteenth century was a more rare and expensive version of what plastic is today