Quotes About Principles

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps.

Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

With prior Republican nominees for president, I disagreed with them on politics, policies, principles, but I never questioned their fitness to serve. Donald Trump is different.

I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.

We as Democrats have no apologies to make to anyone.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.