"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
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"All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are."
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"It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity."
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"Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations."
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"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."
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"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."
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"The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character."
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"One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised."
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"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
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"Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final integrity of the universe in which we live, and of every cause to which we give our thought, our time and our attention."
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"Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing"
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"If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you."
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"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
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"All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures."
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"The glue that holds all relationships together ... is trust, and trust is based on integrity."
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"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
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"When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses."
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"Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law."
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"What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise."
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"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught."
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