Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [481-500] of 530 Integrity quotesIntegrity QuotesIntegrity Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes I do not believe there are more than a very limited number of persons, perhaps a hundred who really know what is in the Constitution of the United States.~ Dr. John J. Tigert I know that most men -- not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic, problems -- can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty -- conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives.~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.~ Pierre Trudeau When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.~ Harry S. Truman It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.~ Harry S. Truman Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa ... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty ... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies ... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die ... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained.~ St. George Tucker Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.~ Mark Twain If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.~ Mark Twain It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.~ Mark Twain A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.~ Mark Twain Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.~ Mark Twain Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.~ Mark Twain If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?~ Mark Twain A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.~ Sir Alex Fraser Tytler When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules, neighboring rulers will take advantage of this.~ Sun Tzu Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.~ Unknown The slow man with integrity will ultimately catch the swift one who has none.~ Unknown The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.~ John Updike Congress may not abdicate or transfer to others its legitimate functions.~ U.S. Supreme Court Just as there is a very short distance between the U.S. and Cuba, there is a very short distance between a democracy and a dictatorship where the government gets to decide what to do, how to think, and how to live. And sometimes your freedom is not taken away at gunpoint, but instead it is done one piece of paper at a time, one seemingly meaningless rule at a time, one small silencing at a time. Never allow the government – or anyone else – to tell you what you can or cannot believe or what you can and cannot say or what your conscience tells you to have to do or not do.~ Armando Valladares Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print