Jeb Stuart Magruder Quotes

No matter how healthy a man's morals may be when he enters the White House, he comes out again with a pock-marked soul.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

It was an act of both conscience and cowardice.

If I’ve done nothing else for the country, I’ve saved them from Dick Nixon.

Although I was aware they were illegal. We had become somewhat inured to using some activities that would help us in accomplishing what we thought was a legitimate cause

Donald Trump’s test of loyalty of his staff is if they will go out and publicly defend his lies.

Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.

To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.

Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of nations only by courting the prospective guilt of the atomic bomb.

In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?

There's a constant contradiction between what feels good and what feels right. But you live with decisions that you make in your life.

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

When you talk about presidents, loyalty is a great thing until it becomes a bad thing. Witness once again Watergate.

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

The lesser evil is also evil.

We always do what's natural, only sometimes we shouldn't do it.

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible.

when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!

An injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.

Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.