Quotes About Integrity

I don't like mixing up moralities with mathematics.

If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed

A man will perhaps tolerate an offensive word applied to himself, but will be infuriated if his nation, his rank, or his profession is insulted.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice

A man may be poor; he may have nothing at all except his labour to sell; he may be a manual worker for a weekly wage, but in a free commonwealth he must enjoy as good a right as any lord, or prelate, or capitalist in the country to the integrity of his own political convictions.

we must not let our standards be determined by the gentlemen of the oposition

Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, two of the. noblest men ever born on the American continent.

Let it never be said that you crept into the crypt, crapped, and crept out again.

Withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well."15

I was so untutored as to suppose that all I had to do was to think out what was right and express it fearlessly.

I could never run for President of the United States. All that handshaking of people I didn't give a damn about would kill me. Ten minutes here. Ten minutes there…Not for me.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because . . . it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Il ne faut jamais oublié quand un malheur vous frappe, qu'il peut très bien vous épargner un ennui pire encore; ou que, quand vous commettez une lourde erreur, cela peut très bien vous servir mieux que la décision la plus sage. La vie est un tout, la chance est un tout, et on ne peut séparer aucun élément du reste.

Art is to beauty what honour is to honesty, an unnatural allotropic form.

Rare and precious is the truly disinterested man.

Without Courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.

When we have degenerated, as we must eventually degenerate, when we have lost our intrinsic superiority…our morals will be gone, but our Maxims will remain.

in our human state there is no separation between public deeds and personal psychology, and the story of the one would be incomplete without the other.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature. I see that a speaker at the weekend said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

Better a Zero than a Nero.

It is sometimes wise to allow natural processes to work, and crimes and follies to be paid in coin from their own mint.

Weakness is not treason, though it may be equally disastrous.

Everything was duty. It was not merely that nothing else mattered. There was nothing else. One did one's duty as well as one possibly could, be it great or small, and naturally one deserved no reward.

This truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.