Quotes About Integrity

We cannot think that God frightens us with threatenings which He really does not mean to carry out, without doing Himself obvious dishonour.

The reason why we often get poor advice is that it's hard to find a person who always has our best interest at heart, isn't envious in any way, and at no level thinks he knows what's best for you.

No I didnt say that Im flawless, but I damn sure dont tarnish.

When you see a real nigga you gotta tip yo hat.. and since Im a real nigga, I do just that.

Im about to go Andre the Giant, you a sell out but I aint buyin.

Tell them to keep my name out their mouth, cause they dont know me.

I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.

If a man seeks to drink enough to blind his conscience, tis acquavit or nothing.

Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

I am most willing to answer all questions about myself… But… I am not willing, now or in the future, to bring bad trouble to people who, in my past association with them, were completely innocent of any talk or any action that was disloyal or subversive.

I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.

He who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

By the fruit the tree is to be known. An evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit.

I have found that it is not entirely safe, when one is misrepresented under his very nose, to allow the misrepresentation to go uncontradicted.

It really hurts me very much to suppose that I have wronged anybody on earth.

Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.

Stand by your principles, stand by your guns, and victory, complete and permanent, is sure at the last.

It strikes me there is some difference between holding a man responsible for an act which he has not done, and holding him responsible for an act that he has done.

I don't want to be unjustly accused of dealing illiberally or unfairly with an adversary, either in court, or in a political canvass, or anywhere else. I would despise myself if I supposed myself ready to deal less liberally with an adversary than I was willing to be treated myself.

Trust is built with consistency.

Once an excuse has been deployed, brutal honesty is no longer an option.

Hence he did not confuse manners with morals.