Walter Lippmann Quotes

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

No matter what is the environment around you, it is always possible to maintain your brand of integrity

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

In the absence of their superior's adherence to the law, honorable men either speak up or get out

Principle is ever my motto, not expediency.

I will not be a liar, a poltroon, or a hypocrite, to accommodate any party, to gratify any sect, to escape any odium or peril, to save any interest, to preserve any institution, or to promote any object.

What makes a man is when you go against your own instincts to do to the right thing.

Listen to your conscience regarding something that you simply know you should do, then start small on it - make a promise and keep it. Then move forward and make a little larger promise and keep it. Eventually you'll discover that your sense of honor will become greater than your moods, and that will give you a level of confidence and excitement that you can move to other areas where you feel you need to make improvements or give service.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.