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I love the idea of rectitude.
Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.
The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.
Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.
The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.
I was lucky enough to be raised by a man of great integrity and rectitude. That said, he was also human and had his secret sins, as we all do.
Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.
A just and a brave man acts fearlessly and with explicitness; he does not shun, but court, the scrutiny of mankind; he lives in the face of day, and the whole world confesses the clearness of his spirit and the rectitude of his conduct.