Quotes About Principles

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

When I was 16, I definitely burned a couple of bridges by saying, 'I won't do this!' I was not diplomatic about it. I came to a fitting and was like, 'I don't wear fur; cancel this show!'

I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

If there are countries that discriminate against the gay community, they are the countries that I will not spend my own personal money. I will go for work there, but I will not spend my own money there. Why would I?

We're able to choose our candidate not based on gender or sex or anything else other than their ideas.

I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.

There are several things to be learned about money from Scripture, and the concepts of generosity and giving are in there.

I think the boxing game is supposed to be a gentleman's sport.

I don't believe in hopping from one social issue to the next to be a part of the movement for a moment. Anything I'm involved in is something that I would die for. I can't support things that don't feel genuine.

Our constitutional principles, which you can say, 'Well, they're on a paper and they'll never be taken away.Folks, we have to fight for those every day. Freedom of the press - you think that can't go away? OK. Maybe.

If you think it's worth selling yourself out, go for it. But I'm not selling myself out so I can make a little more money. I'm not selling my character out for that.

I never conduct business on the golf course.

When you are bringing up your kids, you hope you have given them some sense of right and wrong, a sense of good and bad.

The United States should always side with the good guys.

Good men died for our right to say whatever we want to say and use whatever words we want to use.

Good people do fundamental work because they believe in the work.

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

Ogni cosa a questo mondo è innanzi tutto una questione morale e solo molto più tardi una questione politica.»

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. My toast would be, may our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise always right. I disclaim as unsound all patriotism incompatible with the principles of eternal justice.

The control of events has been taken out of our hands...we have fallen into the mighty current of eternal principles-invisible forces-which are shaping and fashioning events as they wish, using us only as instruments to work out their own results in our national destiny.

To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.