Quotes About Principle

I'm not afraid to fight for things I believe in, and I'm not afraid to respect people that have another point of view.

'Trill' is a combination of 'true' and 'real.' It's my philosophy.

I don't care if you will get angry with me, but I am not open to a compromise. Contractualization must go. It is anti-people.

I don't like compromise. In politics, you have to always choose a compromise, and sometimes, that, I don't like.

There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser.

I'm not good at making compromises.

A clear conscience is a sure card.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.

Go by your own conscience.

The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.

You cannot cave in saying something that is against your conscience and belief. That self-righteous ego is a must for any self-respecting, truth-loving person.

When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.

I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.

I am a conservative who happens to not be a Republican.

I've always been conservative. I was born that way.

I'm a conservative Republican.

This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.

To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.

The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm of impressions which makes up men's thought and of which, especially with swayed by emotion, spontaneous action is the law.

It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.

I hereby swear, in my name and that of all our descendants, that we will never act against the principle of equal rights, and we will never try and force someone from our land.