Quotes About Principles

I have a strong moral sense - by my standards.

All standards are double standards.

There is a basic idea to this fighting spirit: that there are standards worth devoting yourself to that are more important than your self-interest.

True small-c conservatives should fight at every turn to preserve basic standards of conduct and institutions that have served our nation well.

Should there be double standards in the world? Maybe.

I do believe in standing for something more than just a product.

Sometimes you pay a price for standing up.

Standing up for Israel at home validates those fundamental principles of freedom enshrined in our Constitution.

I don't regret standing up to Gamergate at all.

I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should've done more of it back in 2015 and 2016.

I've worked for everything I've had, and I can't think of a better way of using it than standing up for what's right, and what's required to build a better society.

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.

My father (like most fathers) always taught me that a man is someone who stands by his principles, someone who lives with integrity and puts his family before himself. That last one is important, because as a young boy, it's your pops who provides you with security.

I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-suburban hip-hop settings. We need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.

Great presidents take stands, and they fight off these people who really are so far to the right. I don't want to call them names, even though they would call me names.

There are things I cannot do, costumes I cannot wear. When I have taken stands on things, it is because I have thought carefully about them.

Maher Arar's case stands as a sad example of how we have been too willing to sacrifice our core principles to overarching government power in the name of security, when doing so only undermines the principles we stand for and makes us less safe.

It is essential to understand that the U.N.'s strength lies in its values. The values enshrined in the Charter, the values the U.N. stands for, the values all religions respect.

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

The only guide to man is his conscience.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.