Quotes About Integrity

I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

In the name of God and humanity I protest!

You cannot barter manhood for peace.

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

Sir, if you think that I am that kind of a man, you have missed your mark. I would rather die a thousand deaths than betray a friend or be false to duty.

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.

If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.

There are things worth fighting for.

I shall act as I think my duty requires.

You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].