Jay Sekulow Quotes

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

You must legislate morality.

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

Much legislation is moral legislation because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres of life.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

You can't legislate morality.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Conventionality is not morality.

Ethics are more important than laws.

If we leave our values at the door, we give up some of the moral glue that has held our country together

As exhausted as they may be, Republicans need to appeal to their sense of consciousness. To their principles. To what is right and wrong. To American values.

Since the state is a community of human beings it is as truly subject to the moral law as any private society.

Christians must be conscious of their specific and proper role in the political community; they should be a shining example by their sense of responsibility and their dedication to the common good

What is morally correct and what is legally correct are not always the same thing.

Morality is a social necessity

All politics is an extension of ethics ... We cannot leave out conscience at the caucus room door.

As long as the law exists, there will be morality.

One cannot but regret the deliberate absence of every transcendental moral reference in governing the so-called developed society.

It's very much simpler to get rid of any written rule you choose than it is an item of customary morality... while laws are preserved on tablets of wood or stone, customary morality is engraved deep in our living souls

The national policy would be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality

If this is the vaunted superiority our Government and the purity of our elective institutions, I do not think we have so much to be proud of, and morality and religion are of little use if they cannot teach us to discern the difference between right and wrong.

We find the people to be no better than their laws.

Law is, for the most part, positive or mandatory. It prescribes certain duties which I am to do as the condition of my civic protection. Conscience is, for the most part, negative or prohibitory in its operation. It sets before me certain evils to be undone or repented of. Thus law aims to exalt its subject, or make him conventionally righteous; while conscience aims to humiliate him