Quotes About Principles

The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.

There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.

Gingrich, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, and Clinton passed legislation because they understood and appreciated the difficult political process. They fought for their principles yet recognized the need for compromise to get anything done.

I've never recorded anyone else's songs. I'm not interested. If you gave me a song by Bono and Edge and promised me a number one hit with it I'd still say no. That, for me, is not the kind of success I want.

I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

I'm a broadcaster who happens to be liberal, and not the other way around.

I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.

I would never do anything that would harm me, and I am totally against using any kind of resource, illicitly, to benefit myself in any way.

Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.

I think our Founding Fathers, they would disagree, but they weren't disagreeable. They didn't hate each other; they didn't want to kill each other off.

Living country is more about your values and beliefs than cowboy hats or living on a farm.

In some ways, 'decency' is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it.

I don't believe in beating people up just for the sake of grabbing a headline.

So the better thing to do is to be right and be doing the right things for the right reasons rather than trying to be cool and popular and saying whatever thing is going to get good headlines or a big cheer at Glastonbury.

I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money.

I have no hesitation in challenging government of whatever party.

I would not score very highly on religious value.

The moral principles that have priority in each model appear in the other model, but with lesser priorities. Those lesser priorities drastically change the effect of those principles.

Framing the truth at the deepest moral level matters.

Success is a just reward for acting within this moral system. This makes success moral. Competition

An interesting advantage of restitution is that it does not place you in a moral dilemma with respect to the positive-action and debt-payment principles. You both perform a positive action and you pay your debt. A

Two wrongs do not make a right; but three rights make a left.

What is called a good conscience is often but a dull one that gives no trouble when it ought to bark loudest;

respectability to good impulses