Quotes About Principle

Family preparedness has been a long-established welfare principle.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

The welfare state, which grew out of post-war solidarity, has for decades been based on the principle that those who pay into the system are entitled to expect that the safety net will be there for them when they fall on hard times.

If you love the rule of law, you must love it in all of its applications. You cannot only love it when it provides the verdict you seek; you must love it when the verdict goes against you as well.

If we truly understand, remember, and love the people of Indonesia, let us accept this principle of social justice, that is, not only political equality, but we must create equality in the economic field, too, which means the best possible well-being.

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness.

I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America.

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.

An ideologue does not bend to what is popular, what will gain him power, or what is practical. He simply does what he thinks is right.

I'm a conservative - a practicing one. I'm not a talk-about-it one.

I cannot revere compromise; I cannot revere pragmatism; I long for ideologues.

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.

In my presidency I've been guided by what's right, not what's popular.

My message hasn't changed from day one.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.

I have never made a decision based on race and never will.

You defend the truth no matter what.

I will stand strong to defend people even if I don't agree with them.