Quotes about Honesty

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.

hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy.

In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

In a man's letters his soul lies naked.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

When Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero 106-43 BC,) was in 64 BC running for consul of Rome he was reported to be advised by his "campaign manager" that the voters "had rather you lied to them than refused them."

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

No sensible person ever made an apology.

We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.