Quotes about Integrity

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

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.

Associate yourself with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.

There is but one blasphemy, and that is injustice.

To persevere in one's duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.