Quotes About Principle

Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting.

I think, at times of stress, you have to trust the pillars of democracy.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

A lot of people have a belief system that is strictly based on religious dogma.

If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature itself is very arbitrary - it's not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn't even know we're here.

To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a free society and indispensable to a strong middle class.

I don't think you could change my father; he is a very strong character. He believes totally in honesty.

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

I have a strong sense of justice.

The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.

You have to believe in something strongly enough that you would lose your seat over it.

I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles is with mortality; and no one at all is immune to it, which makes it even more interesting to me. Some people fall in love, some don't. Some sky dive, some don't. Everyone who lives, ages.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

Respect for the rule of law is not optional; it's fundamental.

Very simply, I was the original conservative.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice

On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal.

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!