Quotes about Ethics
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
— John Quincy Adams
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
— John F. Kennedy
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
— Frank Herbert
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If your desire is for good, the people will be good.
— Confucius
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
— Dan Quayle
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.
— Ronald Reagan
Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?
— Ronald Reagan