John Frohnmayer Quotes

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

Morals are private. Decency is public.

I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Moral character has now some influence in our elections, but not that place which it deserves. The law of public opinion excludes confirmed sots, and persons judicially convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors against the State; but it ought to render the election of all profane swearers, notorious Sabbath breakers, seducers, slanderers, prodigals and riotous persons, as well as the advocates of dueling, impracticable.

In some ways, 'decency' is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness!

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

We have defined decency down.

Censorship is the conscience of society.

Virtue without terror is powerlessness.

We ought never to do wrong when anyone is looking.

Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.

The chief characteristic of 'The Tribune' under Greeley was an aggressive and even ostentatious purity. 'Immoral and degrading police reports,' and any notices of the existence of the theater, whether in news or advertising, were at first scrupulously excluded.

I cannot tolerate immorality.

I'm not against censorship in principle. Not at all. Some things should be censored.

A leader has to be a role model both in both political and personal life, so from the beginning, I was cautious about my image and I wanted to be incorruptible like my father.

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.