Quotes about Integrity

I am nothing, truth is everything.

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in GOD, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts. Abraham Lincoln, in an address to congress July 4th, 1861

Avoid popularity if you would have peace

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer

If you want to test a man's character, give him power.

If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad