Josh Fox Quotes

What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have it to regret. At most, they give only a cheap vote, and a feeble countenance and Godspeed, to the right, as it goes by them.

I ask the educational system, the parents, the church, and pillars of the community to help shape a new culture of honesty, patriotism, respect, discipline and service for young Filipinos.

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

I think America needs lots of tough people. Not just me. I think America needs to get tougher, all of us.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.

It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat.

It is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

Publicity and openness, honest and complete -- that is the prime condition for the health of every society, and ours, too. The man who does not want them in our country is indifferent to his fatherland and thinks only about his own gain.

I ask every God-fearing citizen to save Boston from the banks and the railroads.

Voting is still the most exciting thing we do as Americans together.

My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned but not bought.

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

We really need a public-interest government that is not taking marching orders from the fossil-fuel industry and the banks and the war profiteers. We really need a government that is acting on our behalf.

I think the history of the world suggests if one studies the Romans, and one studies the early Greeks, and one studies the history of the world, they all eventually falter if they don't come back to the basic aspect of integrity and honor and feelings of love one for another.

I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should've done more of it back in 2015 and 2016.

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.

Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition.

The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as the trial is severe, firmness under it becomes more requisite and praiseworthy. It requires, indeed, self-command. But that will be fortified in proportion as the calls for its exercise are repeated.

Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

Courage--judgment--integrity--dedication--these are the historic qualities of the Bay Colony and the Bay State....And these are the qualities which, with God's help, this son of Massachusetts hopes will characterize our government's conduct in the four stormy years that lie ahead.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.