Patricia Ireland Quotes

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

In my presidency I've been guided by what's right, not what's popular.

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

Our duty is to stand up for those who do the right thing.

Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

If my doing the right thing will cost me my seat, they can take this job and shove it.

When I have to do what I think is right for Montana, I do it.

There are a lot of westerns that deal with people standing up for their principles, and that is the predominant theme that has been in my films.

It's a moral absolute: If you are going to make a human being, you have a fundamental responsibility to that person - to honestly disclose exactly who they are and where they come from.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

We have the obligation to defy public opinion in the public interest.

I can’t accept it. It may cost me the election, but I’m still not going to sign it.

A man must have guts enough to fall out even with his friends .... The only way to play politics is not to play politics.

If you've been around for thirty years posing moral judgments on politics and society, you've got to take a stand. You can't go waving your wooden sword forever.

Sometimes you’ve got to do what is right even though it might be ahead of the people.

Fighting for what is right is not always popular but is always necessary.

To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.

The measure was also allowable on principle, for that it was perfectly justifiable to use all the means that God and nature had put into their hands

I guess coming out against actual evil takes guts.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.

If you step out and do what you feel is right... and you're not attacking a person, and you're attacking a process, and you're attacking the status quo... and if somebody wants to hold a grudge against me, that's on them. It's not on me, and I'm going to do what I think is right.

I have no love for those who consider themselves 'good people' but stand idly by as the world crumbles around them. It's not enough to personally not do damage. If you're present as someone else destroys what's around you and you do nothing, you helped them.

I don't fight for much, but when I fight for something, it's usually because I think I'm going to be right.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.