Quotes About Integrity

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

General Crook had said when a reporter asked him what was the hardest thing about fighting Indians. Replied Three Stars, "Knowing you're wrong." Lieutenant

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

There are many histories of North America. The experiences of successive waves of immigrants are distinct, as are—to a large degree—the histories of the different classes compromising the immigrant waves. The histories of the various peoples native to the continent are also quite distinct within themselves. The story of each of these groups holds a rightful claim to its own integrity, to its own place and fullness of meaning within the whole. To deny this is to distort.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character to another.

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Never trust a man who doesn't drink.

You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.

You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Be very suspicious if somebody says they want to make a movie of your life story.

everything else is stripped away," the Colonel said, "that's all you will have left, your honor, the most important thing in a man's life.

The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.