Principled Quotes

Principled Quote of the day

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far.

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.

I am principled against selling negroes, as you would do cattle at a market.

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

He glosses over and doesn't even tell the truth....Here is a guy who is the ultimate flip-flopper running for president, and he's attacking me for not being principled? That doesn't wash.

Democrats are fighting fire with fire. Our principled stance on Medicare and Social Security is absolutely no different than the Republicans' stance on no revenue increases without cuts.

Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.

Anybody in my job steers a tightrope between being popular and being principled.

Why are some people highly principled and willing to do anything for their principles, while most of us are not? And I am willing to not only ask, but also answer the question.

I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.

I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences.

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.

Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul had a message that was clear, it was principled, and it inspired. It was a vision for a future.

Max Askeli was a very courageous, principled man up to a point. He had left Italy before he was thrown in jail by [Francesco] Mussolini.

This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others' judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.

When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward.

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.

being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.

Mike Pence is a good man, a principled conservative, and he will make a great vice president.

We're principled in the direction we're heading, but we're not going to be stubborn.

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

...the very notion that a candidate should openly solicit votes violated the principled presumption that such behavior itself represented a confession of unworthiness for national office.

I was pleased to see that Chief Justice [John] Roberts refused to prejudge issues or make promises in exchange for confirmation votes. We're all better off because of his principled stand.

It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.

I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.