The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness. — Date Masamune Copy Share Image
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed or habitual.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude. — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations,… — Origen Copy Share Image
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude.… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
What acquaintance have the people at large with the arena of political rectitude, with the connections of kingdoms, the resources of national… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
A doctrine-teaching, character-building university, the Brigham Young University is dedicated to the building of character and faith, for character is higher than… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges,… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
No truth is more clearly taught in the Volume of Inspiration, nor any more fully demonstrated by the experience of all ages,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Has it been found that bodies of men act with more rectitude or greater disinterestedness than individuals? The contrary of this has… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“What are palaces and equipages; what though a man could cover a continent with his title-deeds, or an ocean with his commerce;… — Brett McKay Copy Share Image
The tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise… — George Washington Copy Share Image
No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of… — Judith Sargent Murray Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt. — Pliny the Younger Copy Share Image
How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your… — Celestine Sibley Copy Share Image
Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the… — William McIlvanney Copy Share Image
To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
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