Quotes About Principle

For me, I will defend what's right - not who I am speaking with at the time or who I think will back me.

I listen to everyone but I am the first to defend what I believe.

I defended our Constitution and I always will.

Right is its own defense.

My faith is what defines me as a person, that is who I am.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

I was taught that the search for truth and the search for justice are not incompatible and are, in fact, essential.

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

A huge part of Apple profits generated in Europe, in African countries, Middle East, and India were all booked in Ireland. And I think it is a very basic principle in taxation that your profits are taxed where the profits are generated.

The benefits cap is right in principle because people don't pay their taxes so that families who could work don't work. People pay their taxes so we support people who really need to be supported.

I have always felt that promoting somebody else's mistake as a superlative product is not my cup of tea.

I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night.

Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.

No matter what side of the spectrum you're on, you like to see your team fighting for the principle.

Learning to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong

Not compromising isn't the same thing as being unreasonable.

If he asks himself what he believes is right but doesn't do it, he is also out of integrity. Only by asking himself what he believes is right and then doing it does he become a man of integrity.

It is much more profitable for salespeople to present the expensive item first, not only because to fail to do so will lose the influence of the contrast principle; to fail to do so will also cause the principle to work actively against them. Presenting an inexpensive product first and following it with an expensive one will cause the expensive item to seem even more costly as a result—hardly a desirable consequence for most sales organizations.

Psychologists have long understood the power of the consistency principle to direct human action.

After all, the reciprocity rule asserts that if justice is to be done, exploitation attempts should be exploited. READER

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down...d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.