Jim Mattis Quotes

Civilization depends on morality.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.

To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.

I want to place morality, honesty and ethics at the center of my government's preoccupations, of its councilors or all the principality's decisions.

I think most people know inherently that good wins.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Good morals lead to good laws.

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

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

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.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

Therefore the great mediator of any community is human morality.

The just man walks in his integrity

All virtue is summed up by just dealing.

Public policy should be conducted on those principles which constitute virtue in private life.

The headquarters of good principles.

Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.