Catholic Church Quotes

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to well, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to do.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Character is long-standing habit.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

The more freedom you give people to do good, the more freedom they have to do bad as well.

True liberty, then, is a liberty to do everything that is right …

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Look, we want freedom and we want liberty in this country. But we've also got to have the guts to stand up and run a tight ship in America. Morality is now a word that many people consider very square and outdated. But if we don't stand up for it, we deserve what we will get in the end - unprincipled anarchy.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.