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“The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.”

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Author:Billy Graham

“The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.”

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Author:John Stuart Mill

“Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.”

Men May Moral Virtue Plans Influence Morality Authority Favors Stations Advancement Good Moral

Author:William Wilberforce

“If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What must be the effects of moral beauty? And what influence must it have, when it embellishes our own mind, and is the result of our own reflection and industry?”

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Author:David Hume

“If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it; and nothing would be more fruitless than that multitude of rules and precepts with which all moralists abound.”

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Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Revision of Great Book

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Revision of Great Book

“... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.”

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Author:Tennessee Celeste Claflin

“No individual anonymous participant can influence the prices and therefore you really can speculate in the market without paying attention to morality. That's one of the positive features of markets. That's why they function.”

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Author:George Soros

“A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not blatant and arrogant; because our people want to serve others and not dominate others. And a nation without morality will soon lose its influence around the world.”

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Book:Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis

Source: Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis

“Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the opposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”

“Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.”

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Author:Michele Bachmann