upright citizens Quotes

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.

A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.

Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.

Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.

A nation of character is filled with citizens who gradually build lives based on the living awareness that their deeds are judged by eyes of unchanging truth, by a will that is the real measure of what is right, and therefore of what is good.

From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.