Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
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They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.
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There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
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Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
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Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.
During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
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The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
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Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none.
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Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.
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The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
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A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
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Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.
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God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle.
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