Edmund Burke Quotes

Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

I never did anything dishonest.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

The just man walks in his integrity

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.

. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.

There is no greater virtue than honesty.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.

I was born in an earlier generation and, as a group, my classmates at Blair Academy and Princeton University were as ethical, straightforward, and integrity laden as you could possibly imagine - perhaps not a 100% - but the overwhelming majority. I've been in business a long, long time and I simply cannot imagine seeking out cheating, greedy people.

I choose goodness... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.