Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [241-249] of 249 Morals quotesMorals QuotesMorals Previous 20 quotes Our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, not any government secure which is not supported by moral habits.... Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.~ Daniel Webster The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evil men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.~ Noah Webster Moral indignation: jealousy with a halo.~ H. G. Wells When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.~ Mae West He hasn't one redeeming vice.~ Oscar Wilde America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom -- is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.~ Woodrow Wilson He is the best friend to American liberty, who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who set himself with the greatest firmness to bear down on profanity and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy to his country.~ John Witherspoon Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.~ John Wooden It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense to entrust those who are immoral in private with the power to determine the nation's moral issues and, indeed, its destiny? .... The duplicitous soul of a leader can only make a nation more sophisticated in evil.~ Dr. Ravi Zacharias Previous 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print