Albert Pike Quotes

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

An honorable man or woman is one who is truthful; free from deceit; above cheating, lying, stealing, or any form of deception. An honorable man or woman is one who learns early that one cannot do wrong and feel right. A man's character is judged on how he keeps his word and his agreements.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

I'm a person who has always believed that you tell people the truth, and they'll make reasonable decisions. Truth is powerful.

Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

On the whole, I should say that the person who likes to lie should never, in any circumstances, be allowed to. Leave the lying to the people who hate it. You will not find them indulging often.

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.

It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.

An honest man here lies at rest, the friend of man the friend of truth the friend of age and guide of youth. Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few heads with knowledge so informed. If there's another world, he lives in bliss. If there is none, he made the best of this.

Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.