It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

I’m actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, ‚Man, I said too much.‘ It’s hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Let’s be honest. Canada wasn’t ever cool.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

I take my sleep very, very important.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

Money can’t buy life.

I am who I am and I say what I think. I’m not putting a face on for the record.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.