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Quotes About Honor

“Integrity is measured by what one does in the dark.”

"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
~President Theodore Roosevelt

"America is great because she is good, but if America ever ceases to be good America will cease to be great."
~Alexis de Tocqueville (1835)

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom."
~Benjamin Franklin

"Never will wisdom preside in the halls of legislation until Common Schools...shall create a more farseeing intelligence and a pure morality than has ever existed among the communities of men."
~Horace Mann

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
~Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"People get hired for their technical training. They get fired for their lack of character"

"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know you trust him."
~Booker T. Washington

"What's done to children, they will do to society."
~Karl A. Menninger, M.D.

"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."
~George Bernard Shaw

"A child is the only known substance from which a responsible adult can be made."
~Thomas Lickona

"Good character consists of understanding, caring about, and acting upon core ethical values."
~Character Education Partnership (www.character.org)