Action Quote by Edwin Percy Whipple

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

— Walter Savage Landor

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without…

— James W. Loewen

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

— John W. Gardner

Great people have great values and great ethics.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

“In reality it is far less prejudicial to witness the immorality of the great than to witness that immorality which leads to greatness.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“... a preached immorality is more to be punished than an immoral action. You arrive at murder through love or through hate; you propagandize…

— Italo Svevo

“There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and…

— Mark Twain

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

— Sydney J. Harris

He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.

— Jack London

“I remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end.”

— Geraldine Brooks

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

— Alexis de Tocqueville