The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
The depths and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.