The Declaration of Independence has established certain moral confines, and governs in a manner consistent with the spirit under which our nation… — Jeremiah Denton Copy Share Image
“Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time… — George Will Copy Share Image
Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel.… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological… — Bernard Nathanson Copy Share Image
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, it is my conclusion that a pretty good guide to most issues of natural law is to look at those… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
As many glaciers are melting and icy tundras are decaying, there's an unprecedented amount of woolly mammoth material that's becoming dislodged from… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. ... We have every right to dream heroic dreams.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln had a deep realism; he did not deceive or mislead himself, but faced the world he had to deal with… — William Lee Miller Copy Share Image
And we can't discharge that moral responsibility by passing out contraceptives. Contraceptives have been circulating all over Uganda, and it is not… — Eugene Rivers Copy Share Image
The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
“God put us here to go through this kind of mental gymnastics, and He certainly put us here to enjoy our sexual… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. I'm not a member of any organized political party,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I always tell Lawrence Gilliard Jr. he never got a decent bite of the apple, so I was happy we had a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life,… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every… — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
“The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
...I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus they suck the life right… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that “the country… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith,… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image