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My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

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If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

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The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that. ↗

— Tom Ford

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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

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Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico. ↗

— Vicente Fox

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Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

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I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status. ↗

— Northrop Frye

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