Sacrificing Principles Quotes

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

He [Theodore Roosevelt] acted upon the maxim that half a loaf is better than no bread. I believe that half a loaf is fatal whenever it is accepted at the sacrifice of the basic principle sought to be attained.... A half-way measure never fairly tests the principle and many utterly discredit it.

Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.

Compromise, hell! That's what has happened to us all down the line -- and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?

The devil is compromise.

I think there's almost nothing that I won't, sadly, do for a laugh. It's a problem, actually.

When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.

When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle.

Embracing a bad idea for the sake of optics [political image] is always bad.

Quite frequently, economic needs may compel people to act against their best impulses, even strongly felt natural values.