Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Martin Luther
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
Thomas Jefferson
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Honesty is the best policy.
Benjamin Franklin
It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
Ben Stein
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Franz Kafka
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Elbert Hubbard
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.
Abraham Lincoln
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas Paine
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
Zig Ziglar
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
