Quotes About Principle

Lawyers are always asking me if I will cut some slack for their clients. My standard answer is this is not Let's Make A Deal.

Nach dem demokratischen Verständnis muss der Maßstab jeder Aburteilung abstrakt sein. Das folgt aus dem Verbot von Einzelfallgesetzen. [...] Wozu sollte das Abstrakte uns dienen, wenn nicht als Maßstab für Aburteilungen?

I beat no one who did not deserve it

Our individual liberty is the very essence of America. It is what makes America unique.

I'm always inspired by people who choose to do what is right, not what is easy.

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.

I have nothing left but my integrity.

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

People confuse integrity with the idea of a high moral standing. I think integrity is saying you're going to do something and doing it.

Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it.

I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

Any senator who commits himself or herself to something, should be man or woman enough to take a stand... If they give their word to support something that they are ashamed of, then that is a hypocrisy, and could be interpreted as not wanting to be associated with the matter.

I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

Unlike the political opportunist, the true statesman values principle above popularity, and works to create popularity for those political principles which are wise and just.

It is good strategy to stand up for the right, even when it is unpopular. Perhaps I should say, especially when it is unpopular.

There must be no bloodshed, no violence unless it is defensive, no coercion! We must do it our way and our way alone! To do otherwise is to betray centuries of hardship and struggle. Above all else Kyfho. Forget Kyfho in your pursuit of victory over the enemy, and you will become the enemy...worse than the enemy because he doesn't know he is capable of anything better.

When I see justice sold to the highest bidder I remember Tio Baldo and how he had lost. So honesty then and service are rewarded by banishment and people sell themselves without so much ado because they have no beliefs--only a price.

Es ist im strengsten Verstande wahr, daß, wie der Mensch überhaupt beschaffen ist, nicht er selbst, sondern entweder der gute oder der böse Geist in ihm handelt; und dennoch tut dies der Freiheit keinen Eintrag. Denn eben das In-sich-handeln-Lassen des guten oder bösen Prinzips ist die Folge der intelligiblen Tat, wodurch sein Wesen und Leben bestimmt ist.

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

Every one likes justice in another's house,none in his own.