Quotes about Integrity

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds.

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.

Credit should go with the performance of duty, and not with what is very often the accident of glory.

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The second best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

If we say of a boy or a man, "He is of good character," we mean that he does not do a great many things that are wrong, and we also mean that he does do a great many things which imply much effort of will and readiness to face what is disagreeable. He must not steal, he must not be intemperate, he must not be vicious in any way; he must not be mean or brutal; he must not bully the weak. In fact, he must refrain from whatever is evil. But besides refraining from evil, he must do good.