Thomas Francis Meagher Quotes

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

Sincerity is moral truth.

A book must have moral purpose to be any good. Why, I don't know.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

The just man walks in his integrity

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.

Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.

There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity

Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure.

The regular path of virtue is to be pursued without any bend, and from no view to emolument.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs.

It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.