Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [501-520] of 530 Integrity quotesIntegrity QuotesIntegrity Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The difference between [people who take civil liberties seriously] and others ... is that such serious people begin with a constitutional understanding that declines to trivialize the Second Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment, just as they likewise decline to trivialize any other right expressly identified elsewhere in the Bill of Rights. It is difficult to see why they are less than entirely right in this unremarkable view. That it has taken the NRA to speak for them, with respect to the Second Amendment, moreover, is merely interesting -- perhaps far more as a comment on others, however, than on the NRA.~ William Van Alstyne An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.~ Mark Van Doren That frequent recurrence to fundamental principles, and a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, industry and frugality, are absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty, and keep government free. The people ought, therefore, to pay particular attention to these points, in the choice of officers and representatives, and have a right to exact a due and constant regard to them, from their legislators and magistrates, in the making and executing such laws as are necessary for the good government of the State.~ Vermont Declaration of Rights Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.~ Virgil It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.~ Voltaire Let the laws be clear, uniform and precise; to interpret laws is almost always to corrupt them.~ Voltaire The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.~ Voltaire If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.~ Immanuel Hermann von Fichte From the utopian viewpoint, the United States constitution is a singularly hard-bitten and cautious document, for it breathes the spirit of skepticism about human altruism and incorporates a complex system of checks, balances and restrictions, so that everybody is holding the reins on everybody else.~ Chad Walsh I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.~ George Washington The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.~ George Washington There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.~ George Washington Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.~ J. C. Watts, Jr. No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war? ... [T]hese remarks originate purely in a desire to maintain the powers of government as they are established by the Constitution between the different departments, and hope that, whether we have conquests or no conquests, war or no war, peace or no peace, we shall yet preserve, in its integrity and strength, the Constitution of the United States.~ Daniel Webster I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe ... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. -- From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.~ Daniel Webster The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.~ Daniel Webster When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers, 'just men who will rule in the fear of God.' The preservation of [our] government depends on the faithful discharge of this Duty; if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded. If [our] government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine Commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the Laws.~ Noah Webster Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right.~ Josiah C. Wedgwood Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.~ Oscar Wilde [T]hough of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.~ Oscar Wilde Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print