Quotes about Integrity

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be.

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

When God says to me, "obey," then I humbly bow my head, without compromising in the least my personal dignity, as a man.

The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

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.

With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right

When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad, I feel bad, and that's my religion.

It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.