May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Consider the fellow. He never spends his time telling you about his previous night’s date. You get the idea he has eyes only for you and wouldn’t think of looking at another woman.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

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.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

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

I understand everybody in this country doesn’t agree with the decisions I’ve made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

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 best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

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.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

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

I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he’s going to do, even when it’s hard – especially when it’s hard.

It’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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.

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

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’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

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

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.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

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.

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

Proud 2 Pay – that’s something that distinguishes me, that’s something that defines me, and we’re going to keep that going.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

If you talk bad about country music, it’s like saying bad things about my momma. Them’s fightin‘ words.

Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

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.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.