Quotes About Ethics

Clearly, any issues about breaching of expenses rules should be properly investigated.

I'm a great fan of farmed products, as long as it's done properly, because it allows people to be able to afford them. If it wasn't for farmed products, a lot of people wouldn't eat so well.

I am very nice to those who do their job properly.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.

Who are ever taxed? Individuals only. Who have property that can be taxed? Individuals only. Who can give their consent to be taxed? Individuals only. Who are ever taxed without their consent? Individuals only. Who, then, are robbed, if taxed without their consent? Individuals only.

So use your own property as not to injure that of another.

Satisfying a profit motive must never be the reason for law enforcement, and it certainly must never be allowed to support the seizure of personal property by those who we trust to protect and defend our nation and our Constitution.

People are more important than property.

I don't want to pretend to be a prophet or a saint. I'm very conscious of my limitations. I know my flaws. But I don't like lying.

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.

I proposed abolishing boxing because it was bad for the brain, but boxers were generally so decent that I loved being around the gyms.

Whenever I've had to make a major decision as a doctor, cop or for a company I've worked for, I ask myself: What is the value proposition here? Will my decision bring added value to the population I have the privilege to serve?

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.

I would never tell young people to break the law or avoid prosecution.

Persons who wrongly managed or used the government's money will have to respond to justice in a process that is just, balanced and without political prosecution and without bias.

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.

I think there is no greater job anybody can have than having been a prosecutor.

Sadly, as a seasoned prosecutor, I know what dark acts people are capable of.

The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.