A battle lost or won is easily described understood and appreciated but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection as well as observation to appreciate it.
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality please give them back.
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does maybe your belief in God does maybe there's another set of moral codes but I don't think government has a role.
Government is essentially immoral.
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence the morality the justice and the interest of the people themselves.
When there is a lack of honor in government the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life the children those who are in the twilight of life the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life the sick the needy and the handicapped.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
As a real person he wouldn't last a minute would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it it was dull. If I was House's friend I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people do we?
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.
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt however beautiful or joyful they may be or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
About morals I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.