Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food fuel and clothes. The second that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral intellectual and physical education I received from her.

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.

We burned to death 100 000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

Dad taught us about morals values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.