Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Liberty cannot be established without morality nor morality without faith.
Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced their idealism? Surely part of the answer lies in Clinton's personal moral lapse with Monica Lewinsky. But more important was his sin of omission - his failure to embrace a moral cause beyond popularity.
The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any particular objective long enough to obtain their maximum results.
War except in self-defense is a failure of moral imagination.
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking large ambition and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
If you build that foundation both the moral and the ethical foundation as well as the business foundation and the experience foundation then the building won't crumble.
Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far today's experience was not at all demoralizing expensive or humiliating. No it was just plain fun.
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times but out of trial and confusion.
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap it consoles it distracts it excites it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Of two pleasures if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it that is the more desirable pleasure.
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap it consoles it distracts it excites it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.
In the Brown decision the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby their morals ruined and talents irretrievably lost to society for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
Of all the public services education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy you deal with most social problems and it's morally right.
Religion is the solid basis of good morals therefore education should teach the precepts of religion and the duties of man toward God.
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics because discrimination poverty and ignorance restrict growth while investments in education infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.