Daniel Webster Quotes

Medicine is a noble art. We must preserve our moral purity.

Real morality is possible when the sanctions for morality are also tangible and real. Therefore, atheism shifts the basis of morality from faith in god to obligations of social living. Moral conduct is not a passport to heaven; it is social necessity.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

I don’t believe, and I never did, that a man has to become an informer to practice his profession.

Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity.

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.

If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach of which subjects him to legal liabilities, and the United States, in aiming to maintain itself as one of the most enlightened nations, would do its citizens gross injustice if it applied to its international relations any other than a high standard of honor and morality.

There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.