Quotes about Morality
Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
— William Barclay
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.
— CS Lewis
Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.
— Os Guinness
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.
— Henry David Thoreau
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
— Edmund Burke
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
— Cicero
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
— Cicero
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.
— Joseph Addison
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
— George Washington
Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly
— Samuel Johnson