Quotes About Rectitude

I'm going to ensure justice, where justice is shaky.

To blindly and repeatedly assert one's own position, one's own righteousness, and one's own rectitude in the face of widely held opinion to the contrary was not democracy. It was an attempt at autocracy—a bid, as Lincoln said, to "rule or ruin in all events.

PRESCRIPTION A bit of virtue will never hurt you.

The right thing is to keep the right thing the right thing.

Rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.

There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

I think it's a flawed philosophy to believe impunity when it's inappropriate.

I've done everything right, I'm a model citizen.

Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake.

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.

I am careful about my conduct because I know this cause requires clean men.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

Right is not always right. If you are appropriate, then you are always right.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Pure is honourable.

I see the marks of God in the heavens and the earth, but how much more in a liberal intellect, in magnanimity, in unconquerable rectitude, in a philanthropy which forgives every wrong, and which never despairs of the cause of Christ and human virtue! I do and I must reverence human nature…. I thank God that my own lot is bound up with that of the human race.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.