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Quotes About Principle

The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.
~ Paul Davies
The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
~ Quentin Crisp
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
~ George Carlin
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
~ Bertolt Brecht
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
~ George Carlin
Our priorities is our faith.
~ George W. Bush
I wouldn't dignify it with the name immoral.
~ Graham Spaid, tireless:
Freedom fighters don't always win, but they're always right.
~ Molly Ivins
Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
We need steel spines, not weak knees when it comes to political independence in the Department of Justice.
~ Dianne Feinstein
In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.
~ Herman Melville
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
~ C. S. Lewis
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.
~ Ronald Reagan
Right is right, even if no one else does it.
~ Juliette Gordon Low
Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
~ Robert F. Kennedy
There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
~ Immanuel Kant
In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
~ Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
~ Sallust
Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
~ Charles William Eliot
What we live by we die by.
~ Robert Frost