Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.
A rigid, fanatic, ambitious, selfishly partisan and sectional turncoat with too much genius and too little common sense, who will either die a traitor or a madman.
Referring to John C. Calhoun:
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Lindsey Graham can't lead us in any direction because he traded his moral compass for petty political gain.
This man [Aaron Burr] has no principles, public or private. As a politician, his sole spring of action is an inordinate ambition.
All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.
If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
I don't even pretend we can occupy the Lib Dem holier-than-thou, hands-entirely-clean-and-entirely-empty-type stance. No, we are getting our hands dirty, and inevitably and totally understandably we are being accused of being just like any other politicians.
Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.
An ingrate in politics is no good.
I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
Logic, fact, morality, legality, ideology: All of it is irrelevant in understanding the Party of Trump. Republicans have made crystal clear that nothing matters to them other than partisanship.
A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.
The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principles.
The venal herd. [Lat., Venale pecus.]
What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle; in a high moral sense they were not men at all.
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
Men in power have no opinions, but may be had cheap for any opinion, for any purpose.
Don't die on me," she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. "It's only a little shoulder wound. Goddess, George-don't die on me." His eyes flickered open and he smiled. "I didn't know you cared," he whispered. "And why insult me? I won't die for a wee nick like this; I've had worse in my day." Alanna wiped her wet cheeks. "Of course I care, you unprincipled pickpocket!" she whispered. "Of course I care.
I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.
The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means.
I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use...I prefer the word "unethical."
