Quotes About Integrity

It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

I am nothing, truth is everything.

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

People who have no vices, have very few virtues.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.