Quotes about Integrity

Take the eighteenth-century general who had fallen into disfavor with the great Prussian warrior king, Frederick the Great. Coming upon the king, the general saluted him with the greatest respect, but Frederick turned his back. "I am happy to see that Your Majesty is no longer angry with me," murmured the general. "How so?" demanded Frederick. "Because Your Majesty has never in his life turned his back on an enemy," replied the general.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope

Righteousness can never be legislated. It is a matter of the heart.

Wickedness consists in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

It took work to keep the mind, the heart, and emotions clean and orderly.

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them out in time.

Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appall!