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. She was the wife of a Persian king.