Tom Hayden Quotes

Our differences are policies, our agreements principles.

Any policy is bound to fail which deliberately violates our pledges and our principles, our treaties and our laws …. The American conscience is a reality. It will make us hesitant and ineffectual, even if it does not prevent an un-American policy.

My judgment about what is right for this country will always guide me.

Place principle above all else.

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance.

It's really important that policy be properly designed. It's not enough just to.. .get angry over a subject.

We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but a means to an end; and truth is an end, not a means.

I always try to follow my moral compass.

I don't compromise my values and I don't compromise my work. That's why I've been kicked from one network to the next: I won't give in.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

I'm going to stay true. I'm going to stay true to my values.

The great thing about the Young Turks is that we've always stayed true to our principles.

I don't believe that there are two sides to a story when it's a matter of right versus wrong. It just doesn't work that way.

I don't make my decisions by P.R. I make my decisions based on what I think is right or wrong.

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

You need to know your values.

My moral compass is strong.

To hold on to what you believe is just and right.

We have to make sure we tread the right path, pursue the right policies - and not make any mistakes.

Popularity isn't the end-all, be-all. What matters far more is that you stick to your principles, that you stand up and you live a life of integrity.

I'm not ashamed of the things I believe and why I believe them.

When it all come down to it, the thing that matters most in a relationship is principles [...] We have the same idea what’s right and what’s wrong, and that’s got us through any number of things. If you can have that with someone, then you’re most of the way toward love. Not just lover-love. Any kind of love.

No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those ideals. No nation has a sacred book to be compared with ours. This American nation from its first settlement at Jamestown to the present hour is based upon and permeated by the principles of the Bible. The more this Bible enters into our national life the grander and purer and better will that life become.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.