Horace Mann Quotes

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.

I’ve searched my conscience about leaving the Republican Party, and I decided it was better to change parties than to change my principles.

You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.

We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.

Here's the Republican Party with round heels for anybody who says the right thing at the current moment. Regardless of their record, regardless of their character, and regardless of who they are, it seems that if you say the right stuff now to the Republican ear, Steve Schmidt, they will say yes, no matter who you are.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong.

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles and our conscience.

I've never hidden my faith, but there are only a couple of issues I would die for. There are a few others I would dig my heels in on, and I've told my caucus that what they see is what they get.

Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

Party service does not require intelligent, independent action, and politics today stands for party fealty more than for governmental ethics

However much I have been blamed for not showing more deference to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much

Had some inscrutable decree of fate ordained and made it certain, with a certainty not to be disturbed, that no candidate could be returned to Parliament who would not assert the earth to be triangular, there would rise immediately a clamorous assertion of triangularity among political aspirants. The test would be innocent. Candidates have swallowed, and daily do swallow, many a worse one. As might be this doctrine of a great triangle, so is the doctrine of Home Rule.

I am sorry to say I do doubt the honesty of many men that are called good at home, that have given themselves up to serve a party.

One clings to principles for only as long as they are not put to the test. When that happens one throws them away as the peasant does his slippers.

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson, and follow him in all his motions, and windings, and turnings, even at the expense of my consciences and judgment. Such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

I honestly don't know how John Allen can look at himself in the mirror and say why he supports Hillary Clinton.

One of the problems the Republican Party has had is that we're too fast to compromise. You can compromise on the little stuff, but you can't compromise on your core principles.

I have my values and I always stick with them.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

Republicans are so taken by and loyal to Trump that they will believe and do anything he says.