Business ethics, in any civilization, is properly defined by moral and religious traditions, and it is a confession of moral bankruptcy to assert that what the law does not explicitly prohibit is therefore morally permissible.
Corporate philanthropy should not be, and cannot be, disinterested. It must shape or reshape the climate of public opinion.
Patriotism springs from love of the nation’s past; nationalism arises out of the hope for the nation’s future.
[The country's founders] understood that republican self-government could not exist if humanity did not possess ... the traditional 'republican virtues' of self-control, self-reliance, and a disinterested concern for the public good.
