“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.” –Abraham Lincoln

“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.” – Immanuel Kant

“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.” – Albert Camus

“This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.” – Winston Churchill

“Stand with anybody that stands RIGHT. Stand with him while he is right and PART with him when he goes wrong.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.” – Jane Addams

“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.” – Potter Stewart

“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.” – Mark Twain

“You have enemies? Good. That means that you stood up for something, sometime in your life.” – Winston Churchill

“We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.” – Ernst Troeltsch

“In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.” – Earl Warren

“Lead your life so you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.” – Will Rogers

“Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.” – David Herbert Lawrence

“Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow; the shadow is what we think of it, the tree is the real thing.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The truth is inconvertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is...” – Winston Churchill

“No responsibility of Government is more fundamental than the responsibility for maintaining the highest standards of ethical behavior by those who conduct the public business. There can be no dissent from the principle that all officials must act with unwavering integrity, absolute impartiality, and complete devotion to the public interest. This principle must be followed not only in reality but in appearance. For the basis of effective government is public confidence; and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.” – President John F. Kennedy