Morality Quotes

Wrong is wrong only when you are at liberty to choose.

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed ... to live by the light that I have.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think ... to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery.

Let him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently to build one for himself

Let it be public, full, and fair. No cliqueism or cheatery about it.

Although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ``all men are created equal;'' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong.

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

I planted myself upon the truth, and the truth only, so far as I knew it, or could be brought to know it.

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.

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind; and therefore ... I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.

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

Force always attracts men of low morality.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.