Quotes About Principled

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

I'm not a political guy.

I am no politician.

I've never courted popularity.

My outspoken positions haven't always been popular in the halls of Congress, but they have been rooted in what I believed was right and necessary.

Gomez is a by-the-book cop. He's the only character not to break bad.

I'm not gonna be one of those guys who's going to do the Conor McGregor effect and talk a bunch of crap to make money.

I am not afraid to cross the party line. I never have been.

Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

I'm a clean boxer. You don't have to worry about any dirty tactics.

Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won't—oppose the popular voice. But we will know what you have done. And in your heart, so will you. And that is more than heroic. It is noble.

No, thank you," said Adrian. "These hands don't sully themselves with fighting.

Peacemaking is also not appeasement. Always giving in, acting like a doormat, and allowing others to always run over you is not what Jesus had in mind. He refused to back down on many issues, standing his ground in the face of evil opposition.

Ben Caxton, I will lie right here in the grass and starve before I will get up to push a button that is six inches from your right forefinger.

It was also he who said of Day, "He is, by nature, incapable of allowing injustice to go unchallenged.

There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.

The nationalism I grew up with is a principled standpoint that regards the world as governed best when nations are able to chart their own independent course, cultivating their own traditions and pursuing their own interests without interference. This is opposed to imperialism, which seeks to bring peace and prosperity to the world by uniting mankind, as much as possible, under a single political regime.

He was so certain it was the right thing to do. And we all know, don't we, gentlemen, of the deadliness of righteous men?

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.

I don't tell untruths. I think it's being a coward if you don't tell the truth – and I'm not a coward.

I'm a weirdo, but I have a very strong moral code.

In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls.