Stand On Principle Quotes

#1. Always stand on principle ... even if you stand alone.

John Adams

#2. We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.

Margaret Thatcher

#3. I stand on principle where many people stand on money.

Paula Abdul

#4. Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.

Janet Reno

#5. Sometimes we're actually right when we go with our gut and stand on principle in supporting underdog candidates.

Sarah Palin

#6. The bad principle is that any man should hold over another the power to bind and loose. It's a false relationship to stand in towards one's fellows

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#7. The law of the fast benefits both those who fast and those who stand in need ... In addition to providing the means for taking care of the poor among us, fasting is a principle of power which helps us to individually achieve righteous purposes in our lives.

Victor L. Brown

#8. I think people are hungry for someone who will stand up on principle.

Rand Paul

#9. We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.

Kevin Costner

#10. My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.

Anthony Robbins

#11. Lifting where we stand is a principle of power. Most of the priesthood bearers I know understand and live by this principle. They are eager to roll up their sleeves and go to work, whatever that work might be.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#12. Private property and free trade stand on exactly the same footing, both being essential and indivisible parts of liberty, both depending upon rights, which no body of men, whether called governments or anything else, can justly take from the individual.

Auberon Herbert

#13. On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

#14. For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well.

Evan Davis

#15. The fact is, you never compromise on principles. If people on the far Left, they have a principle to stand by, they should never compromise; those of us on the Right should not either.

Richard Mourdock

#16. The principle of saying no to self lies at the heart of my attitude toward the world as it maintains its alien stand in rebellion against the Creator.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#17. Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.

Winston Churchill

#18. The National Health Service is safe with us. The principle of adequate healthcare should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay must be the function of any arrangements for financing the NHS. We stand by that.

Margaret Thatcher

#19. Being a real friend meant being truthful, and I wanted to stand by that principle, no matter what it cost me

Frank Cascio

#20. Right or wrong. When you stand on a principle..you're never wrong.

Sandra Chami Kassis

#21. In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Jane Smiley

#22. In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson

Merrick Rosenberg

#23. The fact that the Republican Party in particular often seems to stand for principle, only to cave in to pressure at the last minute, has turned off a huge number of voters.

Ben Carson

#24. The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.

Francis Schaeffer

#25. I don't think that has to be our choice ... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.

Alan Keyes

#26. There's a principle here, and I'm hoping the court will uphold this principle so that we can finally go back and have every American want to stand up, face the flag, place their hand over their heart and pledge to one nation, indivisible, not divided by religion, with liberty and justice for all.

Michael Newdow

#27. A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.

George W. Bush

#28. I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.

John Leo

#29. It should be remembered that men of courage, integrity, and principle can stand up to Big Brother and resist the headlong march into economic tyranny.

Richard Ebeling

#30. It's not a matter of pride; it's a matter of principle. I simply will not bow, for I stand too tall for even the Heavens to climb.

Lionel Suggs

#31. What is magnificent about humans is when they decide to turn and stand. If they respond with non-violence on principle and hold their ground, they are really magnificent.

James Cromwell

#32. If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Abraham Lincoln

#33. A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle can be proud of the friends they've gained and the enemies they've earned.

Ezra Taft Benson

#34. There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

Terrence Howard

#35. Ever since I was a child I have been a strong believer in the principle that to under-stand how anything works you need to take it apart and look at it in detail. This principle that worked with toys also works pretty well with search.

David Amerland

#36. Without compassion, we will never know anyone or anything, not even our own story. Too much judgment, too many ideas and attitudes will stand in the way of the fundamental principle that we are similar to, connected with, and part of everything else.

Deena Metzger