Quotes About Principles

I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances.

I have been accused of allegedly giving up my free-market principles in supporting some of Donald Trump's proposed policies.

I am supporting many Republican candidates who embrace the principles and policies set forth in Speaker Ryan's vision and who are committed to moving our country forward on the right path.

I do my research, and if I'm supporting something, then it's because it aligns with me morally and ethically.

If you can get in trouble for supporting a friend you've known for almost 50 years, I don't want to live in that country.

I cannot with a clear conscience move forward supporting and promoting the Miss Universe Organization when I no longer believe in it.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

Aren't we supposed to be standing for something instead of falling for everything?

The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians.

Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.

There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There's absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality.

We've always had this experience that things take long, but I'm 100% convinced that our principles will in the end prevail. No one knew how the Cold War would end at the time, but it did end. This is within our living experience... I'm surprised at how fainthearted we sometimes are and how quickly we lose courage.

Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.

The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles.

Principles describe rights; policies describe goals. But rights are trumps. They have a 'threshold weight' against community goals. They should not be squashed by a competing community goal.

In this book I have sought to clarify the tradition, but it may be possible to go on from this to a full restatement of principles, taking the theory of culture as a theory of relations between elements in a whole way of life.

Other eras and cultures often asked different questions from the ones we ask now: What is the most meaningful thing you can do with your life? What's your contribution to the world or your community? Do you live according to your principles? What will your legacy be? What does your life mean? Maybe our obsession with happiness is a way not to ask those other questions, a way to ignore how spacious our lives can be, how effective our work can be, and how far-reaching our love can be.

Das Gewissen, das des Außenhalts entbehrt, entartet zum Idol der Selbstgerechtigkeit.

The key to the future for blacks is a commitment to America and its ideals of freedom, personal responsibility, the free enterprise system, and moral principles.

twofold profession of faith, or shahadah, that would henceforth define both the mission and principles of the movement: There is no god but God, and Muhammad is God's Messenger.

Iris praecepta sunt haec: honest vvere, alterum nn laedere, suum cuique tribuere. (Justinian Inst. 1.1:

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they'll work.