Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.

You must always do what you feel is right.

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

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

We can't make a decision based on PR value. We have to do what we think is right.

I do what I think is right.

Before you do anything, you need to know if it's right or wrong.

You just have to do what you know is right.

You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'

I have to do what's right.

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible.

I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.

Must we always do our duty? If so, how are we always to know what is our duty?

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

I always try to follow my moral compass.

You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right.