1,840 Quotes About Integrity
- Author Harry S Truman
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A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.
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- Author Henry David Thoreau
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Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as toil gives to sour bread. The breath with which the poet utters his verse must be that by which he lives.
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- Author Henry David Thoreau
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This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
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- Author Henry David Thoreau
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Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.
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- Author Henry David Thoreau
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Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
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- Author Henry David Thoreau
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You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.
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- Author Henry David Thoreau
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What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.
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- Author Henry David Thoreau
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Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.
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- Author Henry David Thoreau
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Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.
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