Benjamin Rush Quotes

Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.

People are either good or they're not. Religion doesn't make anybody good, I don't think.

My future is righteousness.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

I believe in good, having morals, be a decent person.

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

The headquarters of good principles.

Law alone cannot make men see right.