Quotes About Principles

You think you can govern separate from our Constitution? That's the foundation of progressivism right there, folks.

The House Judiciary Committee is a great place to promote our core principles of constitutionally limited government, individual freedom and the rule of law.

There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.

Once enough Americans reacquaint themselves with Americanism, we should promote it to all countries just as the Left promotes leftism and Muslims promote Islam. One need not be American to affirm Americanism.

I'm not going to change who I am or the way I promote fights just to get a title shot, but I think I've done plenty to earn that shot.

In 'Profiles in Courage,' my grandfather, John F. Kennedy, praised leadership that put country above party, elevated principles over petty politics and promoted progress before personal interests.

The conservative movement was founded on core principles of liberty, individual freedom, limited government and building and promoting strong families.

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.

I don't think I can live a life of compromise. If I did, I wouldn't be able to sleep properly.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

The responsibility of the Department of Justice, when it comes to law enforcement, is to determine whether crimes have been committed and to prosecute those crimes under the principles of federal prosecution.

I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and not to be the plaything of power and might - which I now know, of course, to be an absolute nonsense. International law should be spelled l-o-r-e.

I have appealed to the constitution and laws of my country; if they fail to protect me, I appeal to God, and with Him I cheerfully rest my cause. I can die at my post, but I cannot desert it.

There should be some commonsense principles that will assure the American public that their rights are going to be protected online.

Things change, although I believe that certain principles - of attacking, entertaining football - should always be protected.

From the very start, I thought there were four key principles that the agency should focus on: driving private investment, driving innovation, promoting competition, and protecting consumers.

Cheating is nothing to be proud of.

Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.

Of course I've got one--a man can't live without a moral code. Mine is that I'm against the burning of witches. Whenever they burn a witch I get all hot under the collar.

And of course all that he is is a gifted man without a moral sense.

She illustrated very simple principles, containing in herself her own doom, but illustrated them so accurately that there was grace in the procedure, and presently Rosemary would try to imitate it.