Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

I suppose that an honest man shines more in politics than he does elsewhere.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.

Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Integrity is incredibly important to me. As long as you're authentic, you can do no wrong.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I do not believe with the Rochefoucaults and the Montaignes that fourteen out of fifteen men are rogues. I believe a great abatement from that proportion may be made in favor of general honesty.

A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal

...it's so hard to find men of a so high type of morals that they'll stay bought.

Bad principles are not good substitutes for no principles. For to eight years of bad principles may make no principles look pretty good.

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

I try to do the right things. I was always raised that if you do the right thing and obey the law, you won't have problems. I really believe that. But that's just me; that's what I've tried to do because that's how my mother raised me.

Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.

This world is always working against a sense of honor, cleanliness, integrity.

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?

Integrity expects integrity.

We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.