Quotes About Principles

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

It is deeply against my principles to work on any project that I think is to weaponize AI.

Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.

Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history.

You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

I very, very much want to be involved in helping those senators, congressmen, and women who support the principles that made America great.

I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.

The ruler who possesses methods of government does not follow the good that happens by chance but practices according to necessary principles. Law, methods, and power must be employed for government: these constitute its 'necessary principles.'

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.

The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.

As a personality, I'm fighter, you know. And I don't give up, and if I believe I'm correct, I'm right, then I work, and I fight. Okay, this could be over a chess board, this could be in life, and so I defend my principles.

The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Our love for the Founders leads us to abandon, and even to betray, the very principles they fought for.

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

One of the principles upon which the E.U. is built is the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary.

If I can help create an environment where the principles that I believe in can be implemented - to me, that's fulfilling.

I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

I kept thinking, I'm not going to do political journalism, because there's no way to keep my principles and be a political journalist, so I'll edit a popular science magazine. This will be my salvation, and I'll emerge with my integrity intact. That didn't even happen.