Quotes about Ethics
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
— Thomas Jefferson
We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.
— Albert Schweitzer
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
— William James
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.
— Ronald Reagan
Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.
— George Washington
Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.
— Mark Twain
I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality
— Mahatma Gandhi
I hope we can continue to find ways to encourage integrity in all aspects of government operations
— Ben Carson
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
— Theodore Roosevelt
You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.
— James Faust
Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.
— Lyndon B. Johnson