The integrity of the upright guides them.
—Proverbs 11:3
Senator Richard Russell (1897–1971) said, “When the time comes for me to go out of this chamber, whether I go voluntarily, or my commission is revoked by the electorate of Georgia, or I am carried out in a box, I hope it will be possible to say, ‘He was an honorable man.’ My father told his seven sons that not all of them could be successful, but all of them could be honorable.
“I’m giving you two tests today,” a teacher said to his class: “one in trigonometry and one in honesty. I hope you pass both. But if you can pass only one, be sure it’s the test in honesty, because there are a lot of good men who don’t know any trigonometry, but there are no good men who are not honest.”
If it’s not right, don’t do it.
If it’s not true, don’t say it.