For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.
Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.
Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.