William Murray Quotes

He [Lincoln] has doctrines, not hatreds, and is without ambition except to do good and serve his country.

I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.

Integrity means you do what you do because it is right and not just fashionable or politically correct.

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go .

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.

Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character) I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there are those who suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. I would be friend of all--- the foe, the friendless; I would be giving, and forget the gift; I would be humble, for I know my weakness; I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift.

Stand up for Truth regardless of who steps on it.

Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.

It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good. Thus will they be able to marshal the moral resources needed to face the demands of the present, and to pass on to coming generations a society of authentic justice, solidarity and peace.

Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.

So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.

The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud.

A mind that is conscious of its integrity scorns to say more than it means to perform.

To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.