Quote by Thomas Jefferson
In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, s

In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson

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Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted. – Thomas Jefferson

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[I]ntegrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on values rather than personal gain. – Chris Karcher, Relationships of Grace, 2003

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Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us. – George Eliot, Adam Bede

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I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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Integrity is not something that you should have to think about…nor consider doing…but something in the heart that is already done. – Doug Firebaugh

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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in ones earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. – Ashley Montagu

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I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you. – Anthony Storr

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