John Ashcroft Quotes

You can't legislate morality.

The end of all political struggle is to establish morality as the basis for all legislation.

What is morally correct and what is legally correct are not always the same thing.

We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be.

If anyone tells you that you cannot legislate morality, remeber that legislation IS morality.

I'm leery of legislative solutions to what is morality.

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.

There is no right in acting.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

Since the state is a community of human beings it is as truly subject to the moral law as any private society.

Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Statutes against Fundamental Morality are void

Out there you might say there is a moral majority and if you could put them together …

Much legislation is moral legislation because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres of life.

The national policy would be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality

We find the people to be no better than their laws.

… keeper of the national conscience

Laws are often made to express collective ethical principles, to establish a climate of opinion …

I do like crossing moral boundaries.