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Honesty in office is paramount

We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.

Author Greg RavenPosted on March 23, 2015November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories morals, virtueTags Theodore Roosevelt

Tenth Commandment

The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 — to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 15, 2014November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories moralsTags P. J. O’Rourke

Laws and morals

[A] society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 9, 2014November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories moralsTags Robert Bork

Making people ripe for destruction

Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction.

Author Greg RavenPosted on June 21, 2013November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories moralsTags John Witherspoon

Honesty and deceit

It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 29, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories moralsTags Noël Coward

The moral police

And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches on the most unquestionably legitimate liberty of the individual, is one of the most universal of all human propensities.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 1, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories moralsTags John Stuart Mill

Anything called a ‘program’ is unconstitutional

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Author Greg RavenPosted on September 10, 2010July 12, 2021Categories Constitution, government, morals, politics, religion, taxationTags Joe Sobran

The people must be moral

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge … would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 10, 2010November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories moralsTags John Adams

People must be incorruptible

Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 5, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories moralsTags Samuel Adams

Importance of morality

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 6, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories moralsTags Samuel Adams

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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