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- A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
- Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), 'Jugurthine War,' 41 B.C.
- No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), 'The Strenuous Life,' 1900
- The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), 'Prejudices: Fourth Series,' 1924
- Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'experience,' 1580-88
- I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), 'De l'utile et de l'honnete,' 1580-88
- Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826), 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770
- I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), quoted by Time, June 9, 1975
- Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
- Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.
- W. E. B. Du Bois (1868 - 1963), last message to the world, 1957
- Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
- Sam Rayburn (1882 - 1961), quoted Washingtonian, November 1978
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