Quotes About Integrity

For himself, then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.

It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I actually wound up writing this about him. Simply a good, righteous man.

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!

I'm the stuff men are made of!

I never killed a man I didn't have to.

Any man who'd make an X-rated movie ought to have to take his daughter to see it.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.

The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

In days gone by, a man's word was his bond. Today, fortunately, we have glue.

A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.

The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.