Rush Limbaugh Quotes

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

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.

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

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

A conscientious man ought not to regard what may happen to him in this world.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

… knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.

The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an 'intellectual' man, a so-called independent, a 'freethinker.'

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

If you do right, everything will come out right.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.