As a result of parental pressure, some state legislatures and education departments are urging public schools to teach students values such as honesty, respect, and patriotism. Hundreds of business firms, such as Digital Equipment Corp. of Maynard, Massachusetts and Glendale Federal Bank of Glendale, California, have provided millions of dollars for such programs. 8 Justice Elizabeth B. Lacy of the Virginia Supreme Court, in a commencement speech to graduates of the University of Texas Law School, said that legality is the minimum standard of action to follow, that a person's standard of action should be based on what is right and not merely what is technically legal. The battle to maintain a high level of accounting and business ethics is effectively a battle for freedom. As Solzhenitsyn, Colson, and many others have concluded, additional rules and regulations of government will be never preserve a free society whose people lack integrity.
Ethics is the heart of America's economic freedom.
Unethical behavior is a dagger in the heart. The actions of just one person have even changed the course of a nation. But still I am one. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. Long ago a woman named Esther saved the Jews from holocaust.