Quotes about Integrity
One's task is not to turn the world upside down but to do what is necessary at the given place and with a due consideration of reality.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.
— John Adams
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
— John Quincy Adams
Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
— John F. Kennedy
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
— Frank Herbert
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
— Will Rogers
Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?
— Ronald Reagan
Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.
— Thomas Paine
The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.
— Hillary Clinton
Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
— Albert Camus