Quotes about Principle

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

It took guts to ignore public opinion and so what you thought was right.

It took guts to ignore public opinion and do what you thought was right.

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

I regard anticommunism as a matter of principle an evil even greater than communism itself.

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.