On Peer Pressure and Social Change
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. — John Stuart Mill
What Can Destroy This Country?
The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich theory of life. — Theodore Roosevelt
The Moral Imperative
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man […]
What Is an Honorable Person?
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. — H.L. Mencken
Religious Principles Vital to National Security
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. — George Washington