Hope Quote by Vaclav Havel

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

— Samuel Smiles

Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.

— Thomas Jefferson

No government can act in advance of the moral will of the people.

— P. D. James

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

— Will Durant

But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a…

— James Madison

There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political

— Renata Adler

The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and…

— James Joll

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

It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of…

— A. N. Wilson

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

— James Bovard

There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.

— Thomas Jefferson