Quotes On: Ethics

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

To do a great right, do a little wrong.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.