Quotes About Principle

I've always said that I'm an employee and I respect that status but I'm the type of guy who walks in the front door and I'll walk out the front door if it's not right.

I'm a big fan of the rule of law.

I stand for what's right. That's the bottom line. I call it like I see it.

I'm not gonna talk-trash and that's the bottom line.

I'm not going to be bullied into not doing what I think is right.

It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.

The principle that needs to be used to guide the spending is, 'How successful is the program?'

I don't think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, 'A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.'

I didn't suddenly become conservative. It was only the label that changed.

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of life - to which belongs the law that suffering follows the misuse of freedom - will finally be able to bring everything within its right limits.

Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.

I cannot and will not raise money on Benghazi. I also advise my colleagues to follow suit.

when faced with a clash of constitutional principle and a line of unreasoned cases wholly divorced from the text, history, and structure of our founding document, we should not hesitate to resolve the tension in favor of the Constitution's original meaning.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.

I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature

I question the value of our civilization when I see that our public representatives have lost hold of the simplest, strongest truths. Nothing demonstrates the emptiness of a person's mind more than putting party loyalty above principle.

I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced.

In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term abandonment, to describe the self-surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd.

If peace is to be maintained, it must be by brave men, who have come up to the same height as the hero, namely, the will to carry their life in their hand, and stake it at any instant for their principle, but who have gone one step beyond the hero, and will not seek another man's life.

In a virtuous community, men of sense and of principle will always be placed at the head of affairs. In a declining state of public morals, men will be so blinded to their true interests as to put the incapable and unworthy at the helm. It is therefore vain to complain of the follies or crimes of a government. We must lay our hands on our own hearts and say 'Here is the sin that makes the public sin'.

whatever instances can be quoted of unpunished theft, or of a lie which somebody credited, justice must prevail, and it is the privilege of truth to make itself believed.