Quotes About Integrity

The people "placed me in an office of the highest dignity and charged me with the duty of maintaining that dignity and proper respect for the office on the part of my subordinates. . . . By your own conduct you have destroyed your usefulness as a helpful subordinate.

I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that

What is well-spoken must be yoked to what is well-thought. And such thought is the product of great labor, "the drudgery of the law.

At this introductory stage of his career, Roosevelt viewed politics in a puritanical light, as an arena where good battled evil. He had seen his father's dreams of high office undone by corruption; he had absorbed his father's warning that the country could not much longer stand "so corrupt a government.

I have always had a horror of words that are not translated into deeds," Roosevelt frequently charged.

To answer those who asked if Lincoln would reconsider, Douglass gave an emphatic no. "Abraham Lincoln will take no step backward," he insisted. "If he has taught us to confide in nothing else, he has taught us to confide in his word.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

first foray into politics, Lincoln also pledged that if his opinions on any subject turned out to be erroneous, he stood "ready to renounce them." With this

him under the heaviest strain to barter his convictions for the sake of holding office.

For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.

Her source of self respect was that she had not - as she put it - given up and crawled into safety somewhere. Into a safe marriage.

If one is sensible, if one is reasonable, if one never allows oneself a base thought or an envious emotion, naturally one says: Let's make a foursome!

Inside she was dissolving in horror at them both, at how far they had both sunk from honesty of emotion.

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do the right thing because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.

Dixon Steele: You know, when you first walked into the police station, I said to myself, "There she is — the one that's different. She's not coy or cute or corny. She's a good guy — I'm glad she's on my side. She speaks her mind and she knows what she wants." Laurel Gray: Thank you, sir. But let me add: I also know what I don't want — and I don't want to be rushed.

Tant que je vive, mon cueur ne changera Pour nulle vivante, tant soit elle bonne ou sage Forte et puissante, riche de hault lignaige Mon chois est fait, aultrene se fera *** Long as I live, my heart will never vary For no one else, however fair or good Brave, resolute, or rich, of gentle blood My choice is made, and I will have no other.

Lion-hearted; her tremors braced with virtue, Philippa trotted on.

Speak, she said, as you would write: as if your words were letters of lead, graven there for all time, for which you must take the consequences. And take the consequences.

Lymond said gently, Let us bathe in moral philosophy, as in a living river. Double-dealing is my business.

Since I doubt, at the moment, whether I can stomach any hysterical verbiage, suppose we simply say what we mean.

No. I won't. I won't bend my knee, or kiss your charming shoes either. I may possibly fall flat on my face, but that will be quite inadvertent.

Whether romance existed in him or not, sentimentality had no place at all.

It is not enough,' Robert Reid said, 'to offer justice. The laws of men, the laws of God himself are not enough unless you know the heart, the tongue, the brain, the gut of your people.

After five years of villainy, I promise you, I have the refinement of a cow-cabbage.