Quotes about Integrity

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

Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.

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

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.

Do not suffer your good nature ... to say yes when you ought to say no; remember that it is a public not a private cause that is to be injured or benefitted by your choice

Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad Company.

Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.

Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another though he were your enemy.

Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of any.

Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any prisoner ... I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause... for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country.

I think that people need to stand up with their backbone and not go to places where they feel like the workers aren't taken care of.