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Quotes About Integrity

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness
~ Jonathan Mayhew
While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.
~ Margaret Fuller
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
~ Willa Cather
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
~ Corliss Lamont
If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.
~ Andrew Wyeth
I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom.
~ Unknown
To freemen, threats are impotent.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.
~ Erwin McManus
No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.
~ Benjamin Constant
Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.
~ Reverend Malcolm Boyd
Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.
~ Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds
When we are totally faithful to our own individuality, we are actually following a very intricate design. This kind of freedom is the opposite of "just anything".
~ Stephen Nachmanovitch
To the patriots I say this: Take that long eternal look. Stand up for freedom, no matter what the cost. Stand up and be counted. It can help to save your soul-and maybe your country.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
I'm standing for real freedom.
~ Todd Akin
People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.
~ Henry James
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
~ Jack Kornfield
Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.
~ James Q. Wilson
What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The 'thin blue line' is nothing more than the no snitching policy found in any other criminal gang.
~ Dane Whalen
Do not treat others as you would not like to be treated' frees one from hypocrisy. 'Treat others as you would like to be treated' enslaves one with insincerity.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana