Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight thither. The moment he glances toward expediency, he falls from his high estate.
ncrementalism is out, and doing deals with people just for power, when our children's futures at stake is not something I will ever do.
There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth.
To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.
I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.
