Quotes about Integrity

What we believe determines how we live. Men who sincerely believed that what they were doing was right have perpetrated many of the most hideous crimes against humanity.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character to another.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

Right is more precious than peace.

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.

There is nothing that succeeds in life like boldness, provided you believe you are on the right side.