Quotes About Integrity

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if, at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth, I shall have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.

The buck stops here.

Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you, which is a great comfort in the long run.

There is honor among thieves.

A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!

When thieves fall out, honest men come by their own.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

When one has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

He who hates vice hates men.

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable grounds.

If you don't want anyone to know it, don't do it.

You can't act like a skunk without someone's getting wind of it.

I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

I have my standards. They may be low, but I have them.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.