Quotes About Principle

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

The only way I could be extradited is through the principle of what my lawyers call "politics trumps law."

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

I've got to put forward a very strong conservative voice, advocate for conservative values and advocate for principle in politics to restore faith in politics.

I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

I will not change just to court popularity.

Don't fight to be right, but fight when you are right.

In the grand scheme of things it makes no difference who is right but rather what's right that counts.

Right is right, no matter how wrong the time is.

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

Freedom is not the permission to do what you like. It's the power to do what you ought.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.

if you know whether a man is a decided monist or a decided pluralist, you perhaps know more about the rest of his opinions than if you give him any other name ending in IST. To believe in the one or in the many, that is the classification with the maximum number of consequences.

Nevertheless, to keep a good conscience, and walk in such a way as God has prescribed in his word, is a thing which I must prefer before you all, and above life itself.

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth ought not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.