“A people religiously right, will not long remain politically wrong.”
“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.”
“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.”
“(Patrick) Henry rightly understood that the moral condition of the American people was a direct product of their religious faith, and that politics and morality were inevitably intertwined. Thus, the political structure ultimately rested on a religious foundation. The "great pillars of all government and of social life, "Henry once observed, are virtue, morality, and religion.”
“Nothing wrong with shooting...as long as the right people get shot.”
“What is morally wrong can never be politically right.”