Quotes About Integrity

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

It is no use to preach to children if you do not act decently yourself.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

Credit should go with the performance of duty, and not with what is very often the accident of glory.

At times a man must cut loose from his associates and stand alone for a great cause; but the necessity for such action is almost as rare as the necessity for revolution.

Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The second best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

I had always felt that if there were a serious war I wished to be in a position to explain to my children why I did take part in it, and not why I did not take part in it.

Great thought speak only to the thoughtful mind ,but great actions speak to all mankind.

No man in public position can, under penalty of forfeiting the right to the respect of those whose regard he most values, fail as the opportunity comes to do all that in him lies for peace.

No amount of charity in spending such fortunes can compensate in any way for the misconduct in acquiring them.

With soul of flame and temper of steel we must act as our coolest judgment bids us.

The power of the journalist is great, but he is entitled neither to respect nor admiration because of that power unless it is used aright.

If we say of a boy or a man, "He is of good character," we mean that he does not do a great many things that are wrong, and we also mean that he does do a great many things which imply much effort of will and readiness to face what is disagreeable. He must not steal, he must not be intemperate, he must not be vicious in any way; he must not be mean or brutal; he must not bully the weak. In fact, he must refrain from whatever is evil. But besides refraining from evil, he must do good.

We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life.

The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them in practical fashion.

Let these innocent people be careful not to invest in corporations where those in control are not men of probity, men who respect the laws; above all let them avoid the men who make it their one effort to evade or defy the laws.