Barbara Jordan (1936–1996) American politician
Keynote address, Democratic National Convention (13 July 1992). (see External links)
“Wall Street's crime, in the eyes of its classical enemies, was less its power than its morals.”
Chapter VIII https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Aftermath II, Section IV, p 155 <br class="br">The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)
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William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) United States Unitarian clergyman
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Honoré de Balzac book Le Pere Goriot
L'homme est imparfait. Il est parfois plus ou moins hypocrite, et les niais disent alors qu'il a ou n'a pas de mœurs.
Part II.
Le Père Goriot (1835)
Variant: Man is imperfect. He is at some times more or less hypocritical than at others, and then simpletons say that his morality is high or low.
“The certainty of punishment, even more than its severity, is the preventive of crime.”
Tryon Edwards (1809–1894) American theologian
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 456.
“The people must fight for its law as for its walls.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Fragment 44
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“The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.”
William O. Douglas (1898–1980) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Interview with Time magazine (12 November 1973)
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T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935) British archaeologist, military officer, and diplomat
The Revolt in the Desert (1927) Ch. 35
