Quotes About Principle

The goal for me is to stand up for the word of God which is so important to me. It means more to me than what I have.

I'm going to stand up for the good name of Mississippi, just like I did for Mike Espy's good name.

Sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe in.

We have to do what we think is right, even though we may have to stand up to some loud voices in our own parties in order to get something done.

We should ensure that the people-first principle runs through the whole of Party work as appropriate for its nature as a motherly party to make the climate of respecting, loving and depending on them pervade it and Party work focus on improving their living standards.

I can't have double standards, so I do what I believe in.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

I don't mind standing up for what I believe in.

Standing up for what you believe in, to me, is freedom of speech. And that's a right that every American citizen has and what makes this country great.

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.

Nothing is as important as standing up for what you believe in.

I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.

I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation.

I appreciate someone who stands out and stands up for what he believes in, because that's what I'm trying to do.

Resistance to Brexit is the logic of everything Labour stands for.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.

In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.

The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but it is perceived by the man who desires perception.

It is imperative that good people, men and women of principle, be involved in the political process; otherwise we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.