Morality is of the highest importance-but for us, not for God.

Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is [in] his love of justice.

I have some little notoriety for commiserating the oppressed condition of the negro; and I should be strangely inconsistent if I could favor any project for curtailing the existing rights of white men, even though born in different lands, and speaking different languages from myself.

We are committed to the proposition that the principles of morality and considerations of our own security will not permit us to acquiesce in a peace dictated by aggressors and sponsored by appeasers.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.