Quotes About Principles

The facts of life are conservative.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing." ~ Margaret Thatcher

Consensus is the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects. - Margaret Thatcher.

Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations," she went on, "are all too frequently those who by our own words and acts ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism: The right to criticize, The right to hold unpopular beliefs, The right to protest, The right to independent thought.

Money buys everything, if there is no dignity.

There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the inexorable principles that govern human action.

When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down.

Grub first, then ethics.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Those who are ready to sacrifice freedom for security ultimately will lose both.

I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the population.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

Those who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

There is no substitute for a militant freedom.