#principle

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out. ↗

— David Horowitz

#battle #find #get #into #out

When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#money #principle #says #thing

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty. ↗

— Charles Evans Hughes

#certainty #deal #icy #into #law

Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue. ↗

— King Hussein I

#between #clear #dialogue #difference #heart

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#american #american interests #both #china #dialogue

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#get #guiding #indians #just #long

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity. ↗

— Olympia Brown

#ancient #christ #christianity #down #errors

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles. ↗

— Ann Marie Buerkle

#i #principles #willing #won

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil. ↗

— Albert Camus

#cannot #evil #itself #principle #reality

There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the people have a right to a substantive part in its discipline and government. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#church #church power #discipline #doubt #government