John Boehner Quotes

A right is a responsibility in reverse.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Morality is a social necessity

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

We can't make a decision based on PR value. We have to do what we think is right.

Work hard to do what's right, keep our future generation in focus and the future of our country in focus.

I think of Martin Luther King phrase a lot when I'm deciding public issues. He said: "Here I stand: I can do no other." It is basically an affirmation of my ultimate responsibility to obey my conscience in my acts as a public official.

The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.

An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Life is moral responsibility.

Because it's possible to do, and you have the right to do it, doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.