Character Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

— Bob Dylan

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

— Aneurin Bevan

Politics have no relation to morals.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many…

— Andrew Johnson

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

— Bernard Crick

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“What is morally wrong can never be politically right.”

— Lord Shaftesbury

Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

— Bertrand Russell

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

— Thomas Jefferson

“Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.”

— Gore Vidal