Rectitude Quotations

Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.

The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

I want people to realize that at our core, our ritual stuff may be different, but on this campus we all regard scholarship, community service, philanthropy, brotherhood and rectitude as important values. The thing I want people to realize is that Lambda Chi and Pike are different organizations now, they are good organizations.

I love the idea of rectitude.

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.