Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong. That's what I tell my kids, anyway.

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

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.

"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.

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.

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

If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

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

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.

I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

My moral compass is strong.

Is it important to be right or is it important to do what's right? That's one of the hardest lessons to learn.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

Integrity is the core of our character.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

Integrity is a life where your beliefs and intentions are aligned with your words and actions.

You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.

People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable.

I would teach my child to respect what is right - the word right is a difficult word to use - I would teach him to respect the intrinsic value of things. Do you see what I mean? The true proportion of things.