#principled

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement. ↗

— Rand Paul

#also #any #clay #close #cousin

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

— Sidney Poitier

#also #dad #good #good person #individual

All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#around #brought #cold #cold war #deepest

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#cotton #drudge #give #give me #grave

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#lonely #principled #usually

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases. ↗

— George Combe

#always #back #bar #bold #cases

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#because #believe #conservatism #i #i believe

So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#asset #comes #foreign #foreign policy #going

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#crisis #distress #feed #forty #grasped

Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#attention spans #carrying #course #credit #even