Quotes About Principles

I've certainly honored the two promises I made: Always tell you the truth; never vote with my re-election in mind.

Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing.

For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

The Republican Party is either going to return to the party of fiscal responsibility and consistent conservative principles as it was under Ronald Reagan, or it will continue down the path of 'sporadic moderation.'

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.

People don't have to agree with me. They can say, 'My gosh, I can't believe I'm listening to this guy. I can't disagree with him more.' But at least they know that I'm going to fight for things that I believe in. And I don't need to be in formal office to do that.

I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.

We must dedicate ourselves to the fundamental principles of liberty and justice that animate our laws and our governance.

I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.

When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.

If we say yes to something we believe is wrong now, what guarantee is there that the wrong will not be further exacerbated down the line?

My entire life has been guided by a sense of equality, equality for loved ones.

When I came into this industry I set down some guidelines for myself. And I plan to stick to them.

I will never, ever, ever change one thing I did with my policies at city hall.

I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars.

You know we do not make such judgments, said Shushu. Business is business. We do not question whether our customers are 'good' or 'evil.' Once we did, said the older witch. When the Bill of Rights-

A true friend cares more about what is right than about pleasing you.

Trust is a fragile commodity. Know your code of conduct and the values you stand for. Remember: if you wouldn't want to explain it on '60 Minutes,' don't do it.

Just as military officers must understand force structures, tactics, logistics, munitions, the effects of geography, and the like in order to plot military strategy, political defiance planners must understand the nature and strategic principles of nonviolent struggle.

Things opposite unite and appear to disappear. The potential for both remains. That is one of the greatest principles of the causes of things.

What should distress modern Australians, in addition to the virulence of the racism which infected these founding fathers, is the fact that it blinded them to the advantage of adopting, like the US, a code of universal human values, a bedrock of principles upon which Australian law could develop logically and humanely. Thus Australia was endowed with a supreme law – its constitution – which lacked any systemic protection for citizen liberties.