Bases Quote by William Sloane Coffin

A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor…

— Anonymous

The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.

— Robert A. Heinlein

We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests.

— John F. Kennedy

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of…

— Jimmy Carter

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

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

— Thomas Jefferson

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

— Gustave Flaubert

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

— Thomas Jefferson

Every nation lives by its own intelligence, culture, skill and patience.

— Mariana Fulger

“Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.”

— Rebecca Goldstein

Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.

— Jubal