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• It is difficult to legislate morality in the absence of moral legislators.
• Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.
• I am sorry but that action is difficult in the absence of a mouth.
• You can't legislate morality. We tried to outlaw comsumption of alcoholic beverages.
  We found that violation of the law led to bigger crimes and bred disrespect for the law....
• Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.
  -- Andrew Jackson The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country....
• Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
  Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. -- Henry David Thoreau...
• The next thing they'll legislate will be reading helmets !
• Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil.
  But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature that will take the blame....
• Science makes godlike -- it is all over with priests and gods when man becomes scientific.
  Moral: science is the forbidden as such -- it alone is forbidden....