Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

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

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

You don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

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.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.

An honest man is always a child.

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

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

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Integrity has no need of rules.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

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

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Honesty is the best policy.

I am not a crook.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

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

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

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

Power is not alluring to pure minds.