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Code Of Ethics For Government Service
Any person in government service should:
I. Put loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above loyalty to persons party or Government Department.
II. Uphold the Constitution, laws, and regulations of the United States and of all governments therein and never be a
party to their evasion.
III. Give a full day's labor for a full day's pay; giving earnest effort and best thought to the
performance of duties.
IV. Seek to find and employ more efficient and economical ways of getting tasks accomplished.
V.
Never discriminate unfairly by the dispensing of special favors or privileges to anyone, whether for remuneration or not;
and never accept, for himself or herself or for family members, favors of benefits under circumstances which might be construed
by reasonable persons as influencing the performance of governmental duties.
VI. Make no private promises of any kind
binding upon the duties of office, since a Government employee has no private word which can be binding on public duty.
VII.
Engage in no business with the Government, either directly or indirectly, which is inconsistent with the conscientious performance
of governmental duties as a means of making private profit.
IX. Expose corruption whenever discovered.
X. Uphold these
principles, ever conscious that public office is a public trust.
Authority of Public Law 96-303, unanimously passed
by the Congress of the United States on June 27th, 1980, and signed by President Carter on July 3rd, 1980.
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"As this advice, if it ever see the light of day will not do it till I am no more, it may be considered
as issuing from the tomb, where truth alone can be respected, and the happiness of man alone consulted.
"It will be
entitled therefore to whatever weight can be derived from good intentions, and from the experience of one who has served his
country in various stations through a period of forty years, who espoused in his youth and adhered through his life to the
cause of liberty, and who has borne a part in most of the great transactions which will constitute epochs of its destiny.
"The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of States be cherished and perpetuated.
Let the open enemy to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened; and the disguised one, as the Serpent creeping with
his deadly wiles into Paradise." -- James Madison
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