Moral Uprightness Quotes

Believe no evil till the evil's done

Victorian values…were the values when our country became great.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The only way to survive among the evil and corrupt is to be even more wicked and more corrupt than they are!

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

… knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

Virtue without terror is powerlessness.

Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Sincerity is moral truth.

You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.

A book must have moral purpose to be any good. Why, I don't know.

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

Though a man cannot abstain from being weak, he may from being vicious.

The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

Courage without compassion can wreak havoc on our civilization.

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Virtue, like art, constantly deals with what is hard to do, and the harder the task the better the success.