morality Quotes

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.