"You can't legislate morality."

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Morality, Godliness, Spirit, Virtue, Leadership

"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Exaggeration, Truth, Human, Emotion

"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Morality, Friendship, Virtue, Vice, Influence

"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Kindness, Deed, Knowledge, Value

"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Morality, Shame, Deception, Greed, Corruption

"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Morality, Sacrifice, Conflict, Ethics

"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Morality, Humility, Contrast, Behavior

"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

Morality, Self, Betrayal, Sin, Regret

"It is better to be kind than to seek much knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Kindness, Knowledge, Value, Choice

"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Morality, Righteousness, Slavery, Sin, God

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Crime

"I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend."

Government

"You can't legislate morality."

Morality

"I don't support abortion. I could never participate in one. But I think it would be a mistake to make them illegal again."

Mistake

"Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way."

Business

"I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector."

Life

"There's no question that we need tougher drunk-driving laws for repeat offenders. We need to take a lesson from European countries where driving isn't a right but a privilege."

Nation

"I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective."

Politics

"I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me."

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