George Washington Quotes

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

There can be no mercy without truth.

It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there's another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.

Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth?

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

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.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.

I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.

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

I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Compromise on ethical conduct is not an option.

We have to stand for the truth.

Righteousness is on our side.