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Quotes About Integrity

Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed!
~ H. P. Blavatsky
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
~ Napoleon Hill
I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not.
~ Owen Feltham
The only thing that isn't worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly, And be patience with those who don't.
~ Marcus Aurelius
If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.
~ Samuel Adams
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
~ Clarence Darrow
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
~ George Washington
True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.
~ Robert E. Lee
It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.
~ Walter Cronkite
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
~ James Bryce
To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.
~ G. Edward Griffin
The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
~ Mark Twain
There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.
~ Robert Charles Winthrop
What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.
~ Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.
~ Thomas Sowell
I would never stay in office against the will of the people. My ethics and patriotism do not allow me to do so.
~ Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.
~ John J. Crittenden
Patriotism should be sought for and will be found in right living. No man can be a good Latter-day Saint and not be true to the best interests and general welfare of his country.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!
~ Michael Crichton
Saying you are a patriot is not enough - you have to be one.
~ Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism.
~ Rocky Anderson
Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
~ Boies Penrose
When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson