Quotes About Integrity

The cause of right is never lost, Leal. I've often thought the biggest damned fool in the world could to down in history as a great man if he would just consistently vote for the greatest good of the greatest number - Kilkenny

He had fought for a principle, and because it was his nature to fight.

What we have most to fear, I believe, are those within our own borders who think less of country than of themselves, who are ambitious for money, for power, for land. Some of these men would subvert anything, anything at all, my dear sir, for their own profit. They would even twist the laws of their own country in their desire to acquire wealth or power.

It was the kind of a country where if you worked with a man and ate his bread, you bought some of his troubles, too.

My father had lived through wars and troubles, and it left him with a sense that nothing lasted but what a man made of himself.

Courage and bravery are words too often used, too little considered. It is one thing to speak them, another thing to live them.

He was still a boy, but there was steel in him. The eyes into which she looked now were cool, but they were eyes strangely mature. "I reckon I'll stay, ma'am. Down where I come from, we don't back water for no man.

It is neither size nor age that makes a man, Mr. Ryerson, but something he has inside. My son has it.

In Bowdrie's limited vocabulary, to be responsible was the most important word.

Unless one is at heart a rascal, I think he becomes a little better in many ways by assuming leadership.

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No matter what happened here, what I was going to do was important. Maybe not for this town, but for men everywhere, for there must be right. Strength never made right, and it is an indecency when it is allowed to breed corruption.

My old Greek, who was my teacher when I was a boy in my own country," I said, "taught me this. It was a Somali saying, I believe: 'Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for the trickster and catch him at the first attempt, but beware of an honest man.

He had seemed huge and fat. He was all of that, but he was also a man of unbelievable strength. His

We accepted all people as they were and trusted nobody until they had proved themselves trustworthy.

If you play games with men," he replied, "you'll play by men's rules.

There could be no tolerating of evil. One stamped it out or the evil grew worse.

When you and Sakim chose to come with me I accepted responsibility for your lives. I became no longer a free agent. Unless one is at heart a rascal, I think he becomes a little better in many ways by assuming leadership.

Don't lie to me, son, said Haskins. When you make a move that ain't called for and plumb necessary, cats will stop eating canned salmon when the tin is off! Loosen up, Jargan, and tell me what you want!

I had my father's contempt for the courtier who suspends his life from the fingertips of those in power, looking for morsels. I would be beholden to no man.

According to Father Ron Rolheiser, "American culture is the most powerful narcotic this planet has ever perpetrated."5 By keeping us focused on food, pleasure, entertainment, and comfort, it keeps us from developing spiritual depth, personal integrity, character, concern for the poor, or community life.

Abbott had also impressed on Holmes, possibly by his conversation but certainly by his example, the belief that nobility of character consists in doing one's job with indifference to ends

Mere mouthpieces of a party, take away the party & they shrivel & vanish.

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