Quotes about Morality
I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.
— Franklin Pierce
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
— Abraham Lincoln
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
— Thomas Jefferson
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.
— James Montgomery Boice
There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two?...An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
the better angels of our nature
— Abraham Lincoln
War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
— Martin Luther
The more laws, the less justice.
— Cicero
Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
— Edmund Burke
A just war is in the long run far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace.
— Theodore Roosevelt
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
— Abraham Lincoln