Unwavering Stance Quotes

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Anyone, they say, is entitled to change his mind. Not about the defence of Britain, you're not. You either feel it in your heart, in your bones, in your gut, or you don't.

I grew up feeling from a very young age that what was right was right, no matter if God or my teacher said so.

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

My political opponents can have their pound of flesh … but they will not eat into my beliefs

When certain people have certain beliefs, they can be unyielding, and that's really what faith is. There's a large place in the world for faith, but when it comes to a scientific, political, and economic issue, dogma is not a very good place to start.

George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy - nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led based on core conviction and strong principles and has believed that time and distance would allow for context.

There was a time when man stood strong, right was right and wrong was wrong.

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

Never, never, will I accept, on issues of integrity, comparisons with the Liberal party.

McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.

Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say.Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- "No, YOU move.

Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.

I don't see anybody, in any conference, that can shut me down. Any conference, anywhere in the world.

Our team is the best team in the world, and I'm going to maintain that, and I'm not going to let anybody break that up.

You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

I have such strong beliefs. No money or anything could change that.

Looking back, one of the things I love most about my mom was that she never, ever relented. She stuck to her guns right up until the end. She wasn't abusive, but she was never that thrilled that I was gay.

I was right then, I'm right now. I think time has proven me right.

No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.

I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

But facts are facts and flinch not.