Quotes About Integrity

For me to bully anybody, that sounds unbelievable.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

For any unbiased and realistic enquiry against judges, one needs a full time body, independent of the government as well as of the judiciary, with an investigative machinery under its control, through which it can get complaints investigated.

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities . . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor.

Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war.

There can be no whitewash at the White House.

When delivering something like an important letter or other written materials, grasp it firmly in your hand as you go and do not release it once, but hand it over directly to the recipient.

It is soldiers who pay most of the human cost. In war it is extraordinary how it all comes down to the character of one man.

No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.

Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung!

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.

By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

In time of war the first casualty is truth.

The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings.