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"There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right"
Ronald Reagan, President
"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself a public property"
Thomas Jefferson, President
"It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost"
Stephen King, Author
"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great"
Victor Hugo, Author
"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience"
Theodore Roosevelt, President
"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous"
Plato, Philosopher
"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another"
Plato, Philosopher
"All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue"
Plato, Philosopher
"We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it. Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
"Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself"
Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman
"It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President
"There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel"
Vladimir Lenin, Leader
"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
"To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help"
Thomas Sowell, Economist
"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous"
Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer
"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions"
Lord Byron, Poet
"Man is to man either a god or a wolf"
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher
"We are not punished for our sins, but by them"
Elbert Hubbard, Writer
"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil"
Samuel Johnson, Author
"We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot"
Saint Augustine, Saint
"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point"
C. S. Lewis, Author
"It's not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do"
Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer
"Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher
"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher
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