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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

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

Ability and honor

Ability without honor is useless.

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 5, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories morals, virtueTags Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.” — George Jacob Holyoake

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