When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
To do a great right, do a little wrong.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
