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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

Politics have no relation to morals.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law.