Quotes About Honesty

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.

An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.

Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day.

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

My first warning is to my government officers to not presume citizens as thieves.

You do not give preferred deals and dole out favors, lucrative favors, and government partnerships and weapons deals to your clients.

No, I'm not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money.

A government that says what it means, and means what it says.

There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

When government misleads the country about a terrorist attack, that erodes trust.

I hope we can continue to find ways to encourage integrity in all aspects of government operations

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.