Quotes About Principles

If I made decisions around here based on the election, I wouldn't be a very good senator.

I've still got my senses about me, and I know what's right and wrong, which is the main thing.

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

I take ethics seriously.

Democrats stand with Israel because of our shared values.

Whether it s the country or city, I never liked the bad guy.

Just because I don't want to stand on stage with Richard Spencer or Baked Alaska doesn't make me any less conservative.

You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.

As the world is waxing worse, people are turning back to the basics of God.

If we do what we think is right, not try to point-score, people will begin to trust us.

I don't endorse products, only actions and beliefs.

I have such strong beliefs. No money or anything could change that.

You have to stand on your beliefs.

I'm a person who believes in rules.

truest of true believers, Taylor was not about to compromise the most sacred principles of the Kingdom of God to appease the church's Gentile oppressors.

Mormon principles that had been forsaken by the modern LDS Church: plural marriage; the tenet that God and Adam, the first man, were one and the same; and the divinely ordained supremacy of the white race.

Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good of the whole.

Lincoln died as he brought about a nation that would ratify the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to abolish slavery and make citizenship for Black Americans a federal constitutional right. In his lifetime, however, he would never fully put into practice the principles summed up in the motto of a newspaper founded in Rochester, New York, in 1847: Right is of no sex—Truth is of no color—God is the father of us all, and all we are brethren.

America has always been torn between the ideal and the real, between noble goals and inevitable compromises. So was Jefferson. In his head and in his heart, as in the nation itself, the perfect warred with the good, the intellectual with the visceral.

Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism:

And where will it all end? Shall we sometime see Republicans excluding Democrats and Democrats excluding Republicans from our law-making bodies, on the ground that the other party's principles are 'inimical to the best interests' of the United States?

A true patriot salutes the flag but always makes sure it's flying over a nation that's not only free but fair, not only strong but just.

what I believe true dignity consists, that is to say, honesty, propriety of conduct, and honest independence.

United by no fixed principles or objects and destitute of everything like American feeling, so detestable a minority never existed in any country—Their whole political creed is contained in a single word 'opposition'—They