Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
Interpretation
Ethical principles should guide political decisions.
This quote emphasizes the importance of morality in politics, suggesting that actions or policies that are deemed politically correct cannot be justified if they compromise fundamental moral values. It calls for a moral examination of political decisions and actions, reminding us that ethical considerations should take precedence over mere political expediency.
In practice
In a political debate, to emphasize the importance of ethical governance.
My days β the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood β have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this my native land β in the land of my sires β I am degraded without fault as an alien and an outcast.
Every religion is goodβevery religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it.
Diabolical error decks itself out with ease in lying colors with some appearance of truth, so that the force of pronouncement is corrupted by a very brief addition or change, and the confession of faith which should have resulted in salvation, by a subtle transition leads to death!
It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us to breathe... The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
For, the sense of being which in calm hours rises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them, and proceeds obviously from the same source whence their life and being also proceed. We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause. Here is the fountain of action and of thought.
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