Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [321-340] of 530 Integrity quotesIntegrity QuotesIntegrity Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own.~ James Madison [T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is] to refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations.~ James Madison In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason.~ James Madison Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.~ Maimonides To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.~ Orison Swett Marden Goodness is beauty in the best estate.~ Christopher Marlowe It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.~ W. Somerset Maugham You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.~ W. Somerset Maugham In every declining civilization there is a small "remnant" of people who adhere to the right against the wrong; who recognize the difference between good and evil and who will take an active stand for the former and against the latter; who can still think and discern and who will courageously take a stand against the political, social, moral, and spiritual rot or decay of their day.~ Donald S. McAlvaney In the 1950’s [America was] the richest nation, the richest city on earth was Detroit. They voted for change and so now it is the poorest city in America. At the same time, the nation of South Korea, of all the nations on earth, was third from the bottom. Virtually the poorest nation on earth. It is now tenth from the top. If you understand the principle, the greater freedom, the greater the wealth, you can then put any nation [on this chart]. Now you can go to Tagusagopos, you can go to Buenos Aires, you can go to Cairo, you can go to Philadelphia and all you need to know is what percentage of the Gross Domestic Product is controlled by government, and the greater the government, the greater the poverty, and that’s all politics is about. Every day politicians say, “I can make a better decision for you than you can for yourself, and let me take your money away from you and make it on your behalf” and thus make the nation poorer.~ Bob McEwen It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.~ Mignon McLaughlin The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute -- he simply speaks and does what is right.~ Mencius The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.~ H. L. Mencken Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.~ H. L. Mencken Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure.~ H. L. Mencken You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.~ James D. Miles If all mankind minus one were of one opinion and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that person that he, if he had the power, would be in silencing mankind… If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.~ John Stuart Mill The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.~ John Stuart Mill When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty obtained that wise men look for.~ John Milton None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.~ John Milton Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print