John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Base thy life on principle, not on rules.
Rules are inflexible, but principles can be balanced and guide people more judiciously.
John Lancaster Spalding, 1840–1916, Roman Catholic Bishop, Co-Founder, The Catholic University of America, Aphorisms and Reflections, 1901
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. From the point of view of the person or company that bribes or gives campaign contributions to legislators, there has often been a problem that when the heat is on the legislator might begin to refrain from voting as was expected. Twain was joking in this quotation by using the world “morality” to describe the obligation of the legislator to vote for the interest of the briber or campaign contributor. However, there were several major businessmen who actually saw the bribed legislator as having a moral and ethical duty to continue to protect the interest of the briber.
John Lancaster Spalding was an American author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908 and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America.
