Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Integrity has no need of rules.

We all have done something unethical.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

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

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

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

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

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

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.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

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.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Fear is the mother of morality.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

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

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

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

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

We all have the duty to do good.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?