"Politics have no relation to morals." — Niccolo Machiavelli

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• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate… — Aristotle
• What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition… — Aristotle
• The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the… — 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… — 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… — Russell Baker
• When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac

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