Quotes about Principle

I'm an independent conservative. And what I mean by that - when I think we're right, I'm with us all the way, and I am a conservative. And I think my record reflects that.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.

Sometimes, to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.

Old Mr. Towers believed exactly what he preached and somehow it made a tremendous difference.

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.