Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [521-530] of 530 Integrity quotesIntegrity QuotesIntegrity Previous 20 quotes I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.~ Oscar Wilde Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.~ Wendell L. Willkie Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.~ James Wilson Slavery, or an absolute and unlimited power in the master over the life and fortune of the slave, is unauthorized by the common law. Indeed, it is repugnant to the principles of natural law, that such a state should subsist in any social system. The reasons which we sometimes see assigned for the origin and the continuance of slavery appear, when examined to the bottom, to be built upon a false foundation. In the enjoyment of their persons and of their property, the common law protects all.~ James Wilson There is such a thing as a nation being so right it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.~ Woodrow Wilson Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.~ Woodrow Wilson Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.~ Ludwig Wittgenstein You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.~ Harriet Woods To disregard such a deliberate choice of words and their natural meaning, would be a departure from the first principle of constitutional interpretation. "In expounding the Constitution of the United States," said Chief Justice Taney in Holmes v. Jennison, 14 U.S. 540, 570-1, "every word must have its due force and appropriate meaning; for it is evident from the whole instrument, that, no word was unnecessarily used, or needlessly added. The many discussions which have taken place upon the construction of the Constitution, have proved the correctness of this proposition; and shown the high talent, the caution and the foresight of the illustrious men who framed it. Every word appears to have been weighed with the utmost deliberation and its force and effect to have been fully understood.~ Wright v. United States It is a mindless philosophy that assumes that one's private beliefs have nothing to do with public office. Does it make sense to entrust those who are immoral in private with the power to determine the nation's moral issues and, indeed, its destiny? .... The duplicitous soul of a leader can only make a nation more sophisticated in evil.~ Dr. Ravi Zacharias Previous 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print