Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.
Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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.
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.
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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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