Jonathan Turley Quotes

Morality is not merely different in different communities. Its level is not the same for all the component groups within the same community.

I don't think morality can be decided on the private level. I think you need public guidance and public support for a moral consensus. The average person has to know instinctively, without thinking too much about it, how he should raise his children.

I know my kids best. I know what morals and values are right for my children. I think we should not have an oppressive state telling us what to do.

I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

When someone disagrees with you on a moral point you assume that he is one step behind in his thinking, and he assumes that he has gone one step ahead.

We can only judge what is right and proper by our own standards of right and wrong, which differs widely from the whites if I have been properly informed. The whites may do wrong all their lives, and then if they are sorry for it when they die, all is well, but with us it is different. We must continue to do good throughout our lives ... If the Great Spirit wished us to believe and do as the whites, He could easily change our opinions so that we could see, think, and act as they do... I believe that every man must make his own path.

Each man must grant himself … the morality that suits him.

I have no right, for the sake of carrying a measure, or stirring up excitement, or swaying the popular opinion, to urge, as a matter of universal obligation, what God has left as a matter to be decided by every man’s conscience

What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin …

Parents, not governments, should decide what is best for their family.

All participants in politics want to impose as much of their morality on others as possible.

The American people cannot be divided into parties on a question of simple morals or of common honesty.

I'm against sin, but I'm not prepared to discuss sin taxes.

Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by maudlin sentimentality, but by the higher duty I owe myself.

If we try and make out of the American people a people of one mind and one mold, we're through.

Might and right govern everything in this world; might till right is ready.

If the vision of the world in its integrity is lost, the field of legal regulation becomes reduced to the cases of the visible damage done, and the boundaries of the latter become more narrow with the erosion of public morality and secularization of consciousness

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

We wrestle with the political issues of who has stewardship over life.

In the multicultural West, our values are that we have no values: we accord all values equal value

… what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

The complex affair we call the world requires a great variety of people to keep it going.

Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.

… keeper of the national conscience