Quotes About Principle

It is a fundamental principle of democracy that citizens obey the law or incur whatever penalty applies to its breaking.

I'm a principle liberty, rule-of-law Conservative.

The rule of law is the most basic principle on which our Constitution is based.

It seems like basic principle to me. According to Senate ethics rules, Members of the U.S. Senate, and their families, cannot benefit personally and financially from legislative decisions they make. Senator Feinstein, apparently, either doesn't agree with this principle, or she has chosen to ignore it.

Even if you're right you have to forgive. It's a principle that works, whether you believe in God or not.

The fact is, American law encourages whistleblowers and, often, they go down in history as courageous people of principle who made their country better.

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

When it comes to casting for movies, it is a priority that you cast right. The guiding principle must be what is right for the movie, that is the basis you cast someone, not because so-and-so is a friend.

As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.

I'm pro-life. I believe in life at conception.

I'm 100% pro-life.

I am pro-life and always have been.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

There are a couple of ways to use the word democracy, and the way that I think is productive is to think about democracy as not a state that can actually be achieved, but as an ideal.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs.

To be in the right is often an expensive business.

Fairness matters.

My faith has always been important to me. It defines who I am.

It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct.

I am not someone who would build up false news just to get attention.

I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues.

Standing up for what you believe in and being honest, telling the truth are all very liberating things.

No one should be forced to violate one's conscience, nor should anyone be forced out of service of the common good because there are some things their conscience tells them they cannot do.