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- Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
- Author Unknown
- I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
- Charles Peguy
- We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
- Sidney Madwed
- That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.
- M. Henry
- Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.
- C. C. Colton
- It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.
- Author Unknown
- For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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