Quotes About Principle

Truth be known, President Obama has never been particularly driven by principle. Right after his election, I wrote a column in a few days warning people that even though I voted for Obama, he was not what people were describing him to be. I saw him in the Senate. I saw him in Chicago.

Americans should boycott Yahoo products until they get the message that freedom is an American ideal, and we're not going to give it up.

Yeah, I guess I'm not a particularly religious person, but I do really believe strongly that we all need to believe in something, and that's very personal to each one of us.

Democrats can hardly stand on principle regarding election year nominations when they were more than willing to engage in a partisan, election-year impeachment fiasco based on a contrived pretext that had no chance of prevailing.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.

I believe in traditional marriage.

I support traditional marriage. I always have.

I make no pretence at being well-versed in politics - it is all too often about personalities and emotion - but I do know a thing or two about our constitution, as I once trained to be a lawyer. Even a first-year law student learns that an overriding principle is that parliament is sovereign.

I have never been a traitor. I am not an informer; I never betrayed my nation.

Act only on the maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong

Once a man knows good from evil, nothing on earth can compel him to act against that knowledge.

You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

Where there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.

Before I sought truth. Now I seek justice.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.

Do the right thing

Dry logic also must be condemned. Another system declares that the universe is eternal, without beginning or end. It follows that the universe and its phenomena are self-existent; thus lifeless insentient matter is its own agent and keeper, which is absurd, because action implies intelligence and no example can be cited to the contrary. Scriptures also say that the Primal Cause is an intelligent principle, and we know that action always originates from an intelligent source alone.

If you persuade liberalism that its dismissive marginalizing of religious discourse is a violation of its own chief principle, all you will gain is the right to sit down at liberalism's table where before you were denied an invitation; but it will still be liberalism's table that you are sitting at, and the etiquette of the conversation will still be hers.

I had sworn to myself – an oath which I still kept in 1940 – never to write a single word that affirmed war or disparaged another nation.

Such, in all modesty, is the reward of virtue.

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.