Character Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those of any…

— Thomas Jefferson

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

— Benjamin Franklin

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

— William E. Gladstone

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

— Walter Savage Landor

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

— Julian Baggini

“His career, my education, his freedom, my innocence…all tied together in a nice little package of morality.”

— Gretchen de la O

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

— Oscar Wilde

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

— William Hazlitt

Jimmy Carter was unquestionably the most moral president of my lifetime, but he wasn't much of a president.

— Molly Ivins

He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

— Samuel Butler