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• The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Relief, Needs

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.142, Jazzybee Verlag

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• El liberalismo es una religión. No se pueden probar sus principios, ni demostrar su capacidad de despilfarro y destrucción. Pero proporciona un sentimiento de rectitud espiritual a un coste bajo o nulo.

  David Mamet

  Spiritual, Feelings, Cost

  David Mamet (2011). “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture”, p.53, Penguin

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• Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a Declaration of Independence, and call upon the world and the Great God who governs it to witness the necessity, propriety and rectitude thereof.

  Nathanael Greene

  Country, Heart, Independence

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• How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living?

  Celestine Sibley

  Achievement, Advice, Secret

  Celestine Sibley (1975). “Day by Day with Celestine Sibley”, Doubleday Books

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• O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues.

  George Eliot

  Stars, Persistence, Night

  "Oh May I Join the Choir Invisible" l. 1 (1867)

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• The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

  David Brooks

  Government, Gains, Moral

  "The Gingrich Tragedy". Article by David Brooks, www.nytimes.com. December 8, 2011.

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• Ningún hombre con genio para la legislación ha aparecido en América. Son raros en la historia del mundo. Hay oradores, políticos y hombres elocuentes por millares; pero aún no ha abierto la boca para hablar el orador capaz de resolver las cuestiones tan controvertidas del día. Amamos la elocuencia por sí misma, y no por la verdad que pueda decir, o por el heroísmo que pueda inspirar. Nuestros legisladores aún no han aprendido el valor comparativo del libre comercio y de la libertad, de la unión y de la rectitud, para una nación.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Verdad, Hombres, América

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). "The Essential Thoreau", p.301, Simon and Schuster.

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• La educación liberal desarrolla el sentido del derecho, del deber y del honor; y cada vez más en el mundo moderno, los grandes negocios descansan en la rectitud y el honor, así como en el buen juicio.

  Charles William Eliot

  Education, Honor, World

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• No hay verdad más claramente enseñada en el Volumen de la Inspiración, ni más plenamente demostrada por la experiencia de todas las épocas, que el profundo sentido y el debido reconocimiento de la providencia gobernante de un Ser Supremo y la responsabilidad de los hombres ante Él como escudriñador de los corazones y justo distribuidor de recompensas y castigos, conducen por igual a la felicidad y rectitud de los individuos y al bienestar de las comunidades.

  John Adams

  Inspiration, Heart, Men

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 9: Letters and State Papers 1799 - 1811”, p.135, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Cualquiera que haya sufrido una reparación en su casa últimamente sabe que el artesano cotidiano utiliza un lenguaje tan poco preciso y hace promesas tan falsas que hace que sus políticos, incluso el candidato presidencial, parezcan un modelo de exactitud y rectitud. El obrero le dirá: "Venga el miércoles a las nueve". Es mentira. Te está tomando el pelo. Te lo dice para que te calles, igual que le dices a un niño que lo llevarás a Disneylandia si deja de llorar.

  Mary McGrory

  Children, Lying, Home

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• Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.

  Edmund Burke

  Teaching, Men, Ideas

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.2071, Delphi Classics

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• ¿Qué conocimiento tiene el pueblo en general de la arena de la rectitud política, de las conexiones de los reinos, de los recursos de la fuerza nacional, de las habilidades de los ministros, o incluso de sus propias disposiciones?...No presto ninguna atención a la voz del pueblo: es su deber hacer lo que es apropiado, sin considerar lo que puede ser agradable.

  Charles James Fox

  Voice, People, Political

  "The Speeches of the Rt. Hon. C. J. Fox in the House of Commons. Volume I" edited by J. Wright, (pp. 13-14), 1815.

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• El tributo que se debe a los talentos, la rectitud y el patriotismo que adornan a los personajes seleccionados para idearlas y adoptarlas. En estas honorables calificaciones, veo las garantías más seguras de que, por un lado, ningún prejuicio o apego local; ninguna opinión separada, ni animosidad partidista, desviará el ojo comprensivo y equitativo que debe vigilar este gran conjunto de comunidades e intereses; por otro lado, que los cimientos de nuestra política nacional se establecerán en los principios puros e inmutables de la moralidad privada...

  George Washington

  Party, Character, Eye

  George Washington's Inaugural Address, www.archives.gov. April 30, 1789.

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• Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also says that eating in moderation and being physically active (literally, having the energy to exercise) are not evidence of moral rectitude. Rather, they're the metabolic benefits of a body that's programmed to remain lean.

  Gary Taubes

  Exercise, Animal, Sloth

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• By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of a Jury of their Peers, they are either convicted, or acquitted. I have some times thought that we Women are hardly dealt by since strictly speaking, we cannot legally be tried by our Peers, for men are not our Peers, and yet upon their breath our guilt or innocence depends— thus are our privileges in this, as in many other respects tyrannically abridged, and we are forced to yield to necessity.

  Judith Sargent Murray

  Men, Yield, Law

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• Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess of Fortune, come or go wherever she wisheth, let death overtake him today or after a century, the wise man never swerves from the path of rectitude." Let people praise you or blame you, let fortune smile or frown upon you, let your body fall today or after a Yuga, see that you do not deviate from the path of Truth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sabio, Otoño, Hombres

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• The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men.
  In the study of matter we can be honest, impartial, true. That is why we succeed in dealing with it. But about the things we care for — which are ourselves, our desires and lusts, our patriotisms and hates — we find a harder test of thinking straight and truly. Yet there is the greater need. Only by intellectual rectitude and in that field shall we be saved. There is no refuge but in truth, in human intelligence, in the unconquerable mind of man.

  Norman Angell

  Odio, Corazón, Hombres

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. June 12, 1935.

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• For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

  Joe Klein

  Sorry, Political, Ineptitude

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• The crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general good-will; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society. It exercises a greater power than wealth, and secures all the honor without the jealousies of fame. It carries with it an influence which always tell; for it is the result of proved honor, rectitude, and consistency-qualities which, perhaps more than any other, command the general confidence and respect of mankind.

  Samuel Sonrisas

  Character, Exercise, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1884). “Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them. Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive”

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  I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

  Davy Crockett

  Eye, Men, World

  Davy Crockett (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...”

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• Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges, the sovereign people, conscious of the general rectitude of his life, and courageously determined to bear the burdens of his sins in so far as guilt was his.

  Grover Cleveland

  People, Judging, Guilt

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• There are some who live by every rule and cling tightly to their rectitude because they fear being swept away by a tempest of passion, and there are others who cling to the rules because they fear that there is no passion there at all, and that if they let go they would simply remain where they are, foolish and unmoved; and they could bear that least of all. Living a life of iron control lets them pretend to themselves that only by the mightiest effort of will can they hold great passions at bay.

  Philip Pullman

  Letting Go, Passion, Iron

  Philip Pullman (2009). “The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ”, p.61, Canongate Books

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• ¿Se ha comprobado que los grupos de hombres actúan con más rectitud o mayor desinterés que los individuos? Lo contrario de esto ha sido inferido por todos los observadores precisos de la conducta de la humanidad; y la inferencia se funda en razones obvias. El respeto a la reputación tiene una influencia menos activa cuando la infamia de una mala acción ha de repartirse entre varios, que cuando ha de recaer individualmente sobre uno solo.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Otoño, Hombres, Números

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). "The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers", p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Al igual que la aparente franqueza de la rectitud tendrá sus lugares ocultos donde las cosas sucias se enmohecen en la oscuridad, así, en las vidas sombrías de los que están fuera de la ley pueden encontrarse a veces ocultos la honestidad y los ideales ingenuos.

  William McIlvanney

  Honesty, Dark, Law

  William McIlvanney (2013). “Strange Loyalties (Laidlaw 3)”, p.157, Canongate Books

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• Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it?

  Richard Dawkins

  Inspiration, People, Moral

  "The God Delusion". Book by Richard Dawkins, www.abc.net.au. 2006.

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