Brigham Young Quotes

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

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to well, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to do.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

Freedom is not the liberty do anything whatsoever. It is the freedom to do good

True liberty, then, is a liberty to do everything that is right …

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Even though I'm young, I really try to do the right thing.

A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Doing the right thing has power.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

I like honesty and fair play.

I followed the law. Before God, before the law, before the people of the state of Florida who elected me, I know that I followed the law.

Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.