Quotes About Integrity

If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

Honesty consists not in never stealing but in knowing where to stop in stealing, and how to make good use of what one does steal.

I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.

When I am dead I would rather people thought me better than I was instead of worse; but if they think me worse, I cannot help it and, if it matters at all, it will matter more to them than to me.

Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

'Twas Presbyterian true blue.

Let every man be true and every god a liar.

He that imposes an oath makes it,Not he that for convenience takes it;Then how can any man be saidTo break an oath he never made?

It is bad enough to see one's own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people's rubbish fathered upon oneself.

Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

The reality is that the way in which a leader conducts his personal life does, in fact, have a profound impact on his ability to exercise effective public leadership.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.