“We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book, The Naked Communist: The communist 'has convinced himself that nothing is evil which answers the call of expediency.' This is a most damnable doctrine. People who truly accept such a philosophy have neither conscience nor honor. Force, trickery, lies, broken promises are wholly justified.” PeopleBelieveSaidBookPhilosophyLyingEvilForceAnswersAcceptingMoralBrokenHonorPromiseConscienceDenyConvincedDoctrineNakedCommunismCodeCommunistJustifiedInnateBroken PromisesTimelyExpediencyTrickeryMoral Code Book:Title of liberty Source: Title of liberty
“The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest” MenWorldOrderInterestHonorConscienceCreditConvincedTranquility Author:Richard Steele
“One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these eighteenth-century people, that it was that grounding in Greek and Latin that gave them their sense of the classic virtues: the classic ideals of honor, virtue, the good society, and their historic examples of what they could try to live up to.” PeopleTryingLife IsVirtueStudyCenturyExampleRegretHonorIdealsConvincedGreekClassicLatinHistoricGrounding Author:David McCullough
“... I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so great a success that it had apparently convinced him that we were back in the golden days of romantic old New Orleans when gentlemen decided matters of hot dog honor at twenty paces” LittlesStillsEndsMatterDogHonorDecidedTwentiesHotConvincedGoldenGentlemanPaceCostumesNew OrleansPirateHot DogGolden Days Book:A Confederacy of Dunces Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.” MenWellsAcceptingFateHonorWorthyConvincedMeritTargetMisfortunesArrows Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld