Quotes About Integrity

New Rule: You can't put a windmill in your campaign ad if you voted against every single bill that might lead to someone building one. As long as you're sending a camera crew to a farm, why not just take a picture of actual bullshit?

If somebody asks if you tweeted your penis and your answer is anything other than No, you tweeted your penis.

God give me the courage and strength to know who I really am, to act accordingly in my life, and to refrain from diverting my time, energy, and interest into my character defects.

Courage is what makes us do the right thing even when nobody else is doing it.

Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.

We have to harden our hearts and think of the greater good. The plan is, our exposure to her is supposed to purify us. But it seems more like her exposure to us is diminishing her.

My partner and I are very serious about the hero profession.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

Remember, a fact is a fact, no matter how hard the liars amongst you might try hushing it up.

The Code of the West Say what you want about me, but leave the horse I rode in on out of it.

We'll crucify the insincere tonight

The English poet Alexander Pope said, "An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright

Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who possessed extreme courage and extreme kindness. Otherwise it is not rising to the heights but falling down. We show greatness, not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between.

Evil is never done so thoroughly or so well as when it is done with a good conscience.

To tell the truth is useful to those to whom it is spoken, but disadvantageous to those who tell it, because it makes them disliked.

A true friend is so great an advantage, even for the greatest lords, in order that he may speak well of them, and back them in their absence, that they should do all to have one.

Man is neither angel nor brute, and the unfortunate thing is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.

I set it down as a fact that if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

We do not display greatness by going to one extreme, but in touching both at once, and filling all the intervening space.