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Moral Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil...
- He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that…
- If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point…
- We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat…
- Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard…
- Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
- Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name…
- If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no…
- Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.
- The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty…
More Moral Quotes
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac