Stand Watie Quotes

If you're doing something wrong, you deserve to be caught.

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.

If a botch is made at the other end of the Avenue, I don't mean to be a party to it.

I said what I said, but I shouldn’t have said it.

It’s very difficult to come to grips with how we screwed this up, but we screwed this up.

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

My biggest pet peeve is when people don't admit what they've done.

Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.

Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what's most important in life is your conscience. If you told a lie and made other people suffer, I think that's very difficult when you reach this age.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.