Quotes about Principle
May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.
— Thomas Monson
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
— Winston Churchill
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
— George Washington
Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
— James A. Garfield
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.
— Dorothy Sayers
Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.
— George Washington
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
— Thomas Jefferson
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
— Herbert Hoover
I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.
— Winston Churchill
If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible
— Calvin Coolidge
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
— CS Lewis
There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.