Quotes about Principled

The question is not whether we will be extremists but what kind of extremist will we be.

All the words of my mouth are righteous; none are crooked or perverse.

It takes no courage to say or do what's popular.

Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint.

I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

The conflicts of life and work, like those of rest and work, would ideally be resolved in balance: enough of each. In practice, however they probably can be resolved (if that is the word) only in tension, in a principled unwillingness to let go of either or to sacrifice either to the other. But it is a necessary tension, the grief in it both inescapable and necessary.

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.

Stick by your righteous guns and you will bless your fellowman. Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible--but in that order.

Integrity means that we are trustworthy and dependable, and our character is above reproach.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.