Anselm of Canterbury Quotes

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

Good morals lead to good laws.

My father was a Tuskegee Airmen captain in the Air Force and a very strong personality. He believed in fairness and ethics and living up to the commitments you make to others. He ultimately became a judge, and he would talk to me over and over about how important it is to be fair.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

To seek the highest good is to live well.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

All virtue is summed up by just dealing.

Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.

Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity

Being a 'good man' is something you do, not something you are.

You got to do what's right.

Righteousness is on our side.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.