Eleftherios Venizelos Quotes

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

The American people cannot be divided into parties on a question of simple morals or of common honesty.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

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

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

Integrity is incredibly important to me. As long as you're authentic, you can do no wrong.

If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

I will never cheat in any walk of life.

You can't do a good deal with bad people, and you can't do a bad deal with good people. I often use that as my compass.

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.

I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.