Harold Stassen Quotes

I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

I think that there should be a Gaius Baltar Award for Moral Cowardice given out to people every year.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders …?

It is not true that people of high principle are ill-suited for politics.

One of the things that is so important, critical I think, in reading not just the founders but thousands of years as you put it, that discussion about corruption, is that you can't talk about the problem of corruption without talking about human nature.

Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.

I understand the need to serve the community by talking about marriage or halal food. But you should also lead with vision, wisdom and courage.

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

My parents worked really hard at communicating other values they felt were important, such as integrity, courage, humility, treating others with dignity and respect, and having a thirst for knowledge.

Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.

In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant... He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire clever... You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy and bring in policy wonks. But you cant buy courage and decency, you cant rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him. He needs to have, in that much maligned word, but a good one nonetheless, a vision of the future he wishes to create.. But a vision is worth little if a president doesn't have the character - the courage and heart - to see it through.

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will.

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