Richard Nixon Quotes

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

I like honesty and fair play.

It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

There can be no mercy without truth.

I take no actions that I wouldn't publicly recount. If you can't speak your deeds, then don't do them.

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

You can't have justice unless you have truth.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Honesty is the best policy.

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

Be the measure great or small, let it be honest in every part.

Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.

I want to have a society based on truth. That means no longer hiding what we used to hide.

What we want is a moral revolution, not one that people associate with street riots and the disorganization of life. A transformation of attitudes that will introduce normal, moral order in the functioning of the state. An order whereby honesty is a positive value, and dishonesty a negative one.