Practical Quotations » Moral

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:48:56 +0000

After things are over it is easy to choose the fine mental and moral positions which one should adopt.

Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:41:06 +0000

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:33:18 +0000

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:15:03 +0000

I concur with the author in considering the moral precepts of Jesus as more pure, correct, and sublime than those of ancient philosophers.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:10:26 +0000

We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:07:41 +0000

The practice of morality being necessary for the well being of society, He [God] has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:54:45 +0000

As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and His religion as He left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see.

Charles Carroll

Charles Carroll — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:06:18 +0000

Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion….are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.

George Washington

George Washington — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:11:10 +0000

It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

Fisher Ames

Fisher Ames — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:44:02 +0000

Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart…

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:10:38 +0000

The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . . of universal application – laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.

John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:54:10 +0000

There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark.

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:04:48 +0000

In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.

John Adams

John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:28:16 +0000

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.

John Adams

John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:27:00 +0000

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Adams

John Adams — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:01:53 +0000

Statesmen, my dear sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.

George Washington

George Washington — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:58:48 +0000

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.