It's quite difficult to get through to the people who are really committed to these anti-progressive beliefs.
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.
There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.
Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.
My principles and core beliefs haven't changed in many years. You know, I don't change what I think with the wind just in order to perhaps attract more people. I am what I am, believe what I believe, and I say so.
[Barack] Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.
I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
I'm pretty much the same person I was 20 years ago. My politics haven't changed. I have the same feeling of idealism. But I am a little bit wiser and more experienced.
