“Every selfish motive therefore, every family attachment, ought to recommend such a system of policy as would provide no less carefully for the rights and happiness of the lowest than of the highest orders of Citizens.” OrderRightsPolicyOughtCitizensHighestSelfishMotiveAttachmentLowestSelfish Motives Author:George Mason
“When shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, they ignore the fact that it is an economic support of every human right we possess and without it, all rights would disappear.” HumansFactsSupportRightsEconomicCriticsProfitDisappearMotiveEnterpriseInherentShallowPrivate EnterpriseProfit Motive Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.” MenLongCharacterSexVirtueRightsSubjectsDemandLaborDressesPrivilegeAppearanceMannersMotiveEndeavorRidiculeRights And PrivilegesPersonal Appearance Book:Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897 Source: Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897
“A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is the spirit of true democracy, and all government by the Priesthood should be actuated by that same high motive.” MenShouldMayLongDoeGovernmentSpiritDemocracyRightsConscienceMotivePriesthoodTrue Democracy Author:David O. McKay
“I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace, or the fear of danger or of death deter them from asserting the liberty of their country, and endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born” CountryInterestBornLibertyPovertyRightsInfluenceDangerSonAmbitionSacredTerrorMotiveMy SonBetrayPosterityDisgraceTransmit Author:George Mason