Principled Quotes - Page 4

• 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.

  William Morley Punshon

  Journey, Men, May

  William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.8, Adam, Stevenson

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• (I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the world works or it's because you think France's self-interest is more important than America's. If the former applies to you, read a book. If it's the latter, maybe you should move there along with Alec Baldwin, Robert Altman, and the rest of the crowd who promised to leave a long time ago. But whatever you do, don't call France's position principled, because that just insults us both.

  Jonah Goldberg

  War, Integrity, Moving

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• 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.

  Rick Santorum

  Running, Guy, President

  "Santorum's decision came down to odds and his daughter". www.cnn.com. April 11, 2012.

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

  Robin Morgan

  Choices, Causes, Alarms

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• 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.

  William J. Clinton

  Moving, Ideas, America

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• 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

  Tony Benn

  War, Thinking, Long

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

  George Washington

  Selling, Cattle

  George Washington (1908). “Letters and Addresses,”

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• There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early in life, mainly by blacks like my most powerful mentor, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson of Lynchburg, Virginia. They insisted that I be unfailingly polite on the court, unfalteringly calm and detached, so that whites could never accuse me of meanness. I learned well. I look at photographs of the skinny, frail, little black boy that I was in the early 1950s, and I see that I was my tennis racquet and my tennis racquet was me. It was my rod and my staff.

  Arthur Ashe

  Powerful, Boys, Virginia

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• Feminism means having a choice. And feminism doesn't care which choices you make, either. Just that you have them. The point has never been to establish some principled refusal to give yourself to another human being. The point is to make sure you can give yourself--or not give yourself--of your free will.

  Rachel Kadish

  Mean, Giving, Choices

  Rachel Kadish (2007). “Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I was a Senator from New York, I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance. But even thought I represented them and did all I could to make sure they continued to prosper, I called for closing the carried interest loophole and addressing skyrocketing CEO pay. I also was calling in '06, '07 for doing something about the mortgage crisis, because I saw every day from Wall Street literally to main streets across New York how a well-functioning financial system is essential.

  Hillary Clinton

  New York, Wall, People

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