Quotes About Principle

Sometimes justice needs obstructing when it ain't just.

No, it's my rule," he told them. "It's called 'common decency.

a man cannot make himself believe a lie just because it profits him. Men

If my enemy speaks the truth I will not say because it is spoken by my enemy I will not listen.

when human law comes into conflict with what is moral, human law must be defied.

Moral courage is the courage to act and to speak the truth.

I am not a moderate. I am a conservative. I'm a fix-it conservative.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

My integrity means more to me than any fame or money. When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it.

When I have to do what I think is right for Montana, I do it.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

The morality we all grew up with and are accustomed to is what feels right.

I can't morally go against the truth.

I believe that abortion is morally wrong.

I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.

If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

If we ever allow morality or law to become just a question of whose ox is gored, then we will have taken a fatal step toward national suicide. We can survive lapses into hypocrisy, but we cannot survive making hypocrisy a ruling principle.

More to the point, if he did cancel the tour in order to fight that tax, would we regard him as a rational man of high principle or as a doctrinaire, a moral exhibitionist, or an egomaniac

Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage.

Although the rig's crew had, in principle, shut down the flow of oil and gas to the platform, so much

It isn't my job to win . . . my job is simply to take the stand I think right, no matter how unpopular or hopeless or even ridiculous the cause looks, and to have the courage to act on my beliefs. No matter what the consequences turn out to be.

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. But there'd been no struggle. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

Immanuel Kant's "categorical imperative" says that individual actions are to be judged according to whether we would be pleased if everyone in society took the same action.