I'm less outraged than saddened about the moral state of the country.

"I'm the one who believes in the moral state," she would say.

This used to be the most moral state in the union.

It is true that the moral state of mankind is disgracefully low.

The fact that the punishment worried me more than the crime said something about my moral state.

This gives you an idea of the moral state of the Cuban military.

But the loss has also provoked unusual soul-searching about the moral state of the country.

Of the moral state of those who think of such things it does not become us to speak.

Even Aristotle bemoaned the moral state of his day's youth.

But the interest in character education seems to come chiefly out of concern over the declining moral state of the nation.