Quotes About Integrity

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The politician who steals is worse than a thief. He is a fool. With all the grand opportunities around for the man with a political pull, there's no excuse for stealin' a cent.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.

but he has never played the demagogue.

It's nice to be important , but more important ot be nice.

There is nothing that God hates so much as a liar.

A man given to vice is always an idealist.

Too many priests have held their tongues, and I wish it had only been from pity. But we're cowards.

What is horrible about politicians and cops is that they look as though they were made for the job.

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

Someone else's vision will never be as good as you own vision of yourself. Live and die with it, because in the end, that's all you have. Lose it and lose yourself and everything else.

There aren't enough people left who get mad, plain mad. Not mad for a cause or a purpose, but just generally mad at all the bitchery and fraud. We take fraud for granted. We accept it. We like it. We want to be had. That's where he was different. He knew he was being cheated and he didn't like it one tiny bit, whether it was some old biddy doing him out of his two dollars or a corporation telling him they made better cathartics. He was the last angry man.

If accusations fit your prejudices, truth is easily pushed aside.

When in doubt, do the right thing

you don't have to be a boss to be a leader

When people who are driven by a vision see something wrong, they might say to their teammates, "I feel bad because we're not building the kind of system we can be proud of. What shall we do so we don't feel this way?" On

There's never a reason to trust someone. If there's a reason, then it's not trust.

Which do you hate more: breaking your word or dying?" "I don't know. I've never done either.

Answer me this: is it worse to end a stupid task falsely or to continue a stupid task honestly?

It's man's most basic and sacred stewardship-to serve as the guardian of his own behavior. And it's man's blackest and most fundamental evil to try and overthrow that stewardship

I'm beginning to feel that same absolute determination that we cannot -must not!- simply sit back and accept cruelty and injustice. If we do, we become part of it.