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Morality Quotes by John Quincy Adams
- In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine…
- The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . .…
- There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second…
- We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral…
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- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
- We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. — Jane Austen
- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Morality is a private and costly luxury. — Henry Adams
- Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
- Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams