Benjamin Franklin Quotes

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.

I don't think Bill is a role model for anyone.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.

The trouble when you die is that everyone says you were nice. I would like to be thought of as genuinely nice. I would like there to be people who can honestly say, 'Len! Oh yeah, there was more good than bad in him.'

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this.

Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

John isn't qualified to be vice president. He doesn't have the intellect. He doesn't have the stature. He doesn't have the honesty. He doesn't have the character that it takes.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

… to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing.

In public life as in private life, a man of the very highest repute will occasionally go wrong..

Many are asking what my credentials are and what I can do for the Philippines. They are telling me that they heard I am a womanizer. That is true. That is very true.

As long as I can look my family in the face every day, and they know what type of person I am, I'm cool.

Donald Trump Jr. is a very honest, very high-integrity person. I have known him for a long time. I have an enormous amount of respect for him.

This picture has been painted of me. It's not right. I am 100% clean.

Villas-Boas wasn't a bad man, not at all.