“To think the welfare and the goodness of the next generations is indeed a good ethics, but there is much greater ethics than this: To think the welfare and the goodness of the current generations, the very people of now! The reason is simple: Future may not exist, it is only a possibility, but the people of now are not possibility, they are here!”
“Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.”
“but I learned long ago that it does no good to think too far into the future. There is only here. Only now.”
“We are faced this year with the choice between the "work ethic" that built this Nation's character and the new "welfare ethic" that could cause that American character to weaken.”
“Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.”
“In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.”