ethics Quotes

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

The state of slavery is in its own nature bad.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.