Moral Society Quotes

• Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

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  John Adams

  Bible   God   Religious  

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.229

  3351

• A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

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  Andrew Vachss

  Parent   Sacred   Maintaining  

  4670

• We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.

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  Margaret Thatcher

  Mistake   Mean   Compassion  

  1977 Speech, Zurich University, 14 Mar.

  3137

• The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

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  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Nature   Children   Accountability  

  2730

• I recall asking the late eminent liberal historian Arthur Schlesinger, in a public forum in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, if he would say that America was, all things considered, a better, i.e., more moral, society than Soviet society. He said he would not.

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  Dennis Prager

  America   Asking   Moral  

  4856

• In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

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  Andrew Young

  Intelligent   People   Moral  

  3129

• A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

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  Thomas Jefferson

  Integrity   Responsibility   Hypocrisy  

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.66, Modern Library

  1926

• Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

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  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Marriage   Society   Foundation  

  2026