Quotes About Principles

History shows that Americans believe in doing the right thing.

I continually ask myself if a decision I'm about to make falls short in the eyes of God or my family or my colleagues. It's actually a pretty simple litmus test: am I doing the right thing or not? The answer is generally an easy one.

I'm a law-and-order girl: I like people who do the right thing.

As a person, I am not really someone who would intervene and tell you to do the right thing.

With the full power of our 360,000 people, we said to the external world, 'This is what we believe at Accenture is the right thing to do, and gender equality is among the business principles which are fundamental for a company, and we want this to be known outside.'

Kentuckians deserve leaders who aren't afraid to do the right thing.

Conservative ideas don't just sound good. They actually work. That's the secret of our success.

I'm an idealist. I'll die an idealist in the theater. I'll stick to my convictions if I starve to death.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

There is a theme to my broadcasting career - I've never done anything just for the money.

Religious Man, who lived according to belief in transcendent principles that ordered human life around communal purposes, had given way to Psychological Man, who believed that there was no transcendent order and that life's purpose was to find one's own way experimentally.

She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty.

Because God is perfect, his handiwork functions in accord with immutable principles. By the full use of our God-given powers of reason and observation, it ought to be possible to discover these principles. These were the crucial ideas that explain why science arose in Christian Europe and no where else.

You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage ' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice ' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.

When we look below the surface of our individual anxiety, we find that it also comes from something more profound than the threat of war and economic uncertainty. We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety, somewhat like that of the nation, is a basic confusion and bewilderment about where we are going.

I'm a man of honor, Lili; of honor. — Yes, and the world ain't what it used to be, is it Colonel? — But I haven't changed, Lili, I refuse to change. I won't throw in the sponge.

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

He could give me plenty of money but he's got this philosophy that his boys ought to feel some hardships or else they'll all spoil." "A man of principles;" Jesse said. "People say that about themselves when really they only want to make you unhappy.

A man of principles," Jesse said. "People say that about themselves when really they only want to make you unhappy.

We have been hijacked by the modern world, where rules, principles, and propositions have explained how everything works neatly—including God.

To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

The idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.

Religions find lasting utility in terms of prescription or parameter, rules for the conduct of human affairs.

Fellow Citizens, I presume22 you all know who I am. I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. I am in favor of a national bank. I am in favor of the internal improvement system and a high protection tariff. These are my sentiments and political principles. If elected I shall be thankful; if not it will be all the same.