Quotes about Ethics
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.
— Abraham Lincoln
Important principles may and must be inflexible.
— Abraham Lincoln
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
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
— Abraham Lincoln
If you want to test a man's character, give him power.
— Abraham Lincoln
If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad
— Abraham Lincoln
I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
— Abraham Lincoln
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
— Abraham Lincoln
Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freemen.
— Abraham Lincoln
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.
— Abraham Lincoln
Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
Menschen, die keine Laster haben, haben auch nur wenige Tugenden.
— Abraham Lincoln