Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defence
Make yourself an honest man, and then you can be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
It's amazing how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? -Marcus Tullius Cicero
I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.-- H. L. Mencken
I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.-- The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. VII, p. 372.
Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest we have no right to keep him in public life, it matters not how brilliant his capacity, it hardly matters how great his power of doing good service on certain lines may be. -- Roosevelt, Theodore. 1900. The Strenuous Life. , "OUTLOOK," MAY 12, 1900
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