Quotes about Morality

Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice will not sleep forever.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.

The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is Just

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life; if that has been honest and dutiful to society, the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, 'til at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.