Ulysses S. Grant Quotes

I think I'd rather tell the truth and say what I believe in and make people unhappy than sort of pretend to think something else to accommodate them and try to be liked. That's just the way it goes and I don't think I'm any great champion of anything, but if they're going to put me on a show, I'm going to say what I think.

Beholden to nobody Wilson had risen to his position through brainpower, wedding the complexity of his intellect with the simplicity of his faith, placing principles before politics, he followed his conscience, never first checking public opinion

When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't like, some of them may have liked. I said my beliefs, my truth, and my convictions, and that's how I am going to continue to do in the future.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.

When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I cannot surrender my principles, though the whole world besides should vote them down - I can make no compromise between truth and error, even though my life be the alternative.

America needs some honest men who dare to say what they think, not what they think people want them to think.

If we do not speak with our own opinion, we prevaricate with God and our conscience.

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

I would rather die having spoken in my manner, than speak in your manner and live.

When in doubt, tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you're solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

I will never say something I don't agree with or believe in... even if the reward is massive!

I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right.

I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.

No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then - face the world.

I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.

Honesty - however dangerous - should be as valuable as radium it seems to me.

There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars ... But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates.

Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something that you don't believe is right. Living in truth with other people means that you refuse to stay in any situation where you are unhappy with the behavior of another person. You refuse to tolerate it. You refuse to compromise.