Quotes About Integrity

Party honesty is party expediency.

Weak people cannot be sincere.

His only fault is that he has no fault.

We fought hard. We gave it our best. We did what was right and we made a difference.

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake, sweet, but not nourishing.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

I have said what I meant and meant what I said. I have not done as well as I should like to have done, but I have done my best, frankly and forth-rightly; no man can do more, and you are entitled to no less.

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his political life.

Our Congressmen are the finest body of men money can buy.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on office, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

When Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC,) was in 64 BC running for consul of Rome he was reported to be advised by his "campaign manager" that the voters "had rather you lied to them than refused them."

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Among the smaller duties in life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.