morality Quotes

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.