Quotes About Integrity

The world is full of people with agendas, trying to persuade us to act on their behalf (spend on their behalf, fight and die on their behalf, oppress others on their behalf). But inside us is what Hemingway called a 'built-in, shockproof, shit detector.' How do we know something is shit? We watch the way the deep, honest part of our mind reacts to it. And that part of the mind is the one that reading and writing refine into sharpness.

Now, like, I'm President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know? I bet if they did, I hope I would say, 'Hey, get lost. We don't want any of that.

If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!

Those who based decisions on principle, not some snapshot of public opinion, were often vindicated over time.

The lessons his mother had instilled had taken hold: Do your best. Don't be arrogant. Never complain.

he spoke out forcefully against leakers, including former CIA agent Philip Agee, who had just released a tell-all book. My father could forgive a lot of mistakes, but he believed that it was disgraceful for a man to violate his oath and reveal state secrets, especially when it could lead to the loss of innocent American life.

A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.

Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.

if to please the people,we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair. The rest is in the hands of God.

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Saya harap, saya selalu memiliki cukup keteguhan dan cukup kebajikan untuk memelihara gelar yang saya anggap paling mengagumkan, yaitu watak sebagai orang jujur.

Do not suffer your good nature [...] to say yes when you ought to say no; remember that it is a public not a private cause that is to be injured or benefitted by your choice

56.Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad Company.

89th: Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.

Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope. Thomas Edison, American inventor

Those who have committed no faults want no pardon. We are only defending what we deem our indisputable rights.

Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another though he were your enemy.

Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of any.

Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner] ... I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause... for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country.