I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

I think there are many honest businessman.

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

Be true to thine own self.

I once had the confidence of the people ... and if I have since done any thing, either by design or misadventure, which if known, would subject me to a forfeiture of that confidence, he that knows of that thing, and conceals it, is a traitor to his country's interest.