Quotes About Principles

I don't think I deviated from what I'm all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.

Letting non-citizens vote jeopardizes our principles as a nation. They vote only for entitlement, not for their own responsibility as citizens.

I'm a bit of a Libertarian.

It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.

I am not going to the House of Lords. Never. That's not who I am. That's not where I am.

Often, the people who speak loudest about republican values are the least when it comes to honouring them.

I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

I'm a process person. Process is a manifestation of values.

My parents brought me up to speak the way I speak, to hold my head up high, to know wrong from right and to have manners.

There are no rules. Only principles and natural laws.

How is it a vegan won't visit the zoo or rodeo, but you'll level a man with martial arts?

The Republican abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who had once denounced the founding as a hideous compromise with slavery, came to understand the accomplishment of the framers. "Abolish slavery tomorrow," he said, "and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution needs to be altered.

In the progressive narrative, America is to blame, and the first offenders were the Founders themselves. The progressive conclusion is that the founding was "defective," setting up the progressive agenda to replace and move away from founding principles, what Obama called the "remaking" of America.

Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.

These were the things that built the world. Not to know or care about them was a betrayal of fundamental principles, a betrayal of gender, of species. What could be more useless than a man who couldn't fix a dripping faucet—fundamentally useless, dead to history, to the messages in his genes? I wasn't sure I disagreed.

It is the nature and pleasure of townspeople to distrust the city. All the guiding principles that might flow from a center of ideas and cultural energies are regarded as corrupt, one or another kind of pornography. This is how it is with towns.

These were the things that built the world. Not to know or care about them was a betrayal of fundamental principles, a betrayal of gender, of species. What could be more useless than a man who couldn't fix a dripping faucet—fundamentally useless, dead to history, to the messages in his genes? I wasn't sure I disagreed.

Mi možemo govoriti o ljubavi i o njoj napisati tisu?u knjiga, ali ljubav ?e biti sasvim druk?ija za svakoga od nas, jer je moramo iskusiti. U ljubavi nije rije? o na?elima, nego o djelima. Ljubav na djelu može stvarati samo sre?u. Strah na djelu može stvarati samo patnju.

agreement around principles, goals and identity among the conquered is almost always hostile to the victor and carry the seeds of future rebellion.

A great leader has to be flexible, holding his ground on the major principles but finding room for compromises that can bring people together. A great leader has to be savvy at negotiations so we don't drown every bill in pork barrel bridges to nowhere. I know how to stand my ground — but I also know that Republicans and Democrats need to find common ground to stand on as well.

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who lack the same courage to do what is right. It's called the road less traveled.

what miserable creatures great men are when they have no high principles within them and no faith in the reality of a God above them.