Top 138 Principled Quotes & Sayings

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

We all lose when bullying and personal attacks become a substitute for genuine conversation and principled disagreement.

What I am is a principled conservative individual who believes in fiscal responsibility.

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

I don't think it's principled to give up on electoral victory to make ourselves feel good.

For liberals, generally speaking, honoring procedures - means - is the core of what being 'principled' means. For conservatives, fighting for the right outcome - ends - even at the expense of procedural nicety, is what being 'principled' means.

Taking a principled and consistent stance over Iraq has attracted much criticism from our detractors and opponents.

I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.

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.

U.S. lawmakers should take a firm and principled stand consistent with their rhetoric about the importance of human rights and democracy in Egypt.

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

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.

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

Do we go back and be the mushy middle party? Or do we have conservative, principled ideas for all the issues of the day, from the economy, from foreign policy, defence, security, that's the choice.

A fierce and principled opposition stops a fat, complacent government from making stupid mistakes.

The best thing you can say about libertarians is that because their views derive from abstract theory, they tend to be highly principled and rigorous in their logic.

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.

It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.

The Tories have long since abdicated any pretension of principled global leadership.

I think people are tired of just, this kind of continuous conflict. They want to see principled problem-solving.

Basically, the person in the White House should be principled, should have a philosophy about food that relates directly to organic agriculture. I will continue to push for that.

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

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

I think of myself as intelligent and strong and principled.

There are trade-offs in everything we do in life, and I have accepted that if I would like to be principled - and just principled - my best call would be to sit at home and shut up, because nothing I preached would be connectable to the practice.

Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.

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

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

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.

Leaders are not dogmatic. They are principled and know that change is never easy, but when it's necessary, they must lead.

For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.

Humans violate the rules in a safe and principled way, and the reality is that autonomous vehicles in the future may have to do the same thing if they don't want to be the source of bottlenecks.

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

There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.

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.

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.

CBS's Ed Murrow may have been over-celebrated as the principled observer for the masses, fair yet unafraid to take on the bullies.

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

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

Proponents of change within Vietnam's government know their country will be more stable and prosperous if it continues to open up. But principled arguments don't always carry the day.

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.

Any time a party has lost three consecutive elections, it becomes a bit more willing to explore the notion of principled compromise so it's able to pursue some of its objectives.

Take like, say, Obama, he's called "liberal" and he's praised for his "principled objection to the Iraq war". What was his "principled objection"? He says it was a "strategic blunder," like Nazi generals after Stalingrad.

I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed that any of those principled arguments lost a single vote - indeed, I think they gained support though that was not why you did it. What has been lacking in Labour politics over a long period is a principled stand

Jeremy Corbyn is a principled Labour man.

My focus has always been: I can be an incredibly conservative, principled idea person, but that doesn't mean I have to shout at people.

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.

...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.

We need a principled foreign policy that consistently and resolutely stands up for freedom.

Dad was a very, very principled man, and he hated any kind of story where the baddies get away with it.

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

Elections should highlight principled disagreements, but they must not obscure our capacity to cooperate for the common good.

As the leader of the nation, I say in behalf of the Filipino people to the world: we are strong and principled believers in democracy.

I'm not an angry kind of person. What I am is a principled person.

I don't consider myself very principled. As a travelling musician, you have to adapt and adjust to different contexts every day. It is always difficult to connect preach and practice. For instance, I fly more in a year than I had hoped to do in my whole life. I eat what people serve me, not what I think is right. I tried writing songs that were principled, but always ended up contradicting myself when trying to convert the principles into practice. In fact, these days I try not to be too principled, but rather be pragmatic.

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

It's very nice to be a rebel saying, 'I stand on my principles,' but if in fact that's not going to have any impact on the policy, it may be principled, but it doesn't deliver the better outcome that the country needs.

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

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