Never compromise on your values and principles, even if it's the hard way.

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

In politics, as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease, and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.