Quotes About Principles

Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

In politics there are no principles, just opportunities

Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.

In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little.

It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.

What the media is doing is, again, just going after the Democrats and the Republicans and making it about politics instead of principles.

It's important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.

I have always been involved in issue-based politics, not party politics - I was never really originally drawn to party politics.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.

Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys it.

Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish.

There is no bandit so powerful as Nature. The interaction of the positive and the negative principles, which produces the visible universe. In the whole universe there is no escape from it.

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

The biggest reason that positive endings don't happen is because employees are trained on policies and rules rather than principles.