Quotes About Principle

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'

There will always be a just fight and a cause to die for.

The Moravians were more lenient. Although one of their principles was "not to fight with carnal weapons but with prayer," they still allowed that "a soldier could become and remain a member.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

I don't think it says anywhere in the Bible that tithing should be calculated on a before-tax basis.

I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.

I will never cheat in any walk of life.

I don't cheat.

I am not a cheater.

I'd rather write a check than make myself look ridiculous.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

I never chose something just for the money.

I've never been a Sunday-only kind of Christian.

There is no more important value than upholding the right to life in all circumstances.

Communist party leadership in China knows that Canada's political and media elite values feeling superior to the United States more than they value standing on principle on the international stage.

On principle, I always support the opinion of a population who express themselves through a referendum.

I have supported the equal rights amendment since I was a freeholder. You won't find many people who can say that. I'm very proud of it.

I'm a religious liberty supporter - I strongly believe in that.

No money in this world could convince me to play for Liverpool. That's not a lack of respect for Liverpool supporters or the football club. It's respect for the Everton supporters. You just can't do that. It goes against everything that I stand for. No chance.

Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters do not have a monopoly on principle.

I stand up for what is right even if it puts me in a political conundrum. Supporting Senator Sanders was one of those moments when the status quo said 'Uh uh, bad girl.'

I'm fully supportive in principle for the government to do the maximum to help the people that need help.

To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate.

I do not think it possible for anyone to get by in life without prejudice. However, the attempt to do so leads many people to suppose that, in order to decide any moral question, they have to find an indubitable first principle from which they can deduce an answer.