Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

There is no sin but ignorance.

I would not hold that we must judge by the favorable or adverse result alone whether an undertaking was just or unjust.

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this.

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

Good laws are produced by bad actions.

But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.