John Kenneth Galbraith Quote – Stand Firmly On Principle

“If you hear someone in public life say that he is going to stand firmly on principle, you should take cover, and warn others to do the same.” – John Kenneth Galbraith
Read more“If you hear someone in public life say that he is going to stand firmly on principle, you should take cover, and warn others to do the same.” – John Kenneth Galbraith
Read more“It is often easier to fight for a principle than to live up to it.” – Adlai Stevenson
Read more“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” – Maya Angelou
Read more“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” – Steve Prefontaine
Read more“No one who has stood for high values — love, truth, justice — has died being able to declare victory, once and for all. If we embrace values like those, we need to find ways to stand in the gap for the long haul, and be prepared to die without having achieved our goals.” – Parker J. Palmer
Read more“The future depends on what we do in the present.” – Gandhi
Read more“You can’t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.” – W. Somerset Maugham
Read more“Through her example, may [Most Holy Mary] encourage you to be in the new millennium announcers of hope, love and peace.” – Pope Francis
Read more“People always say that a person reflects their true character when no one is around. I have found in life that this is not true. Yes, people act like they truly would when they are alone; but how they act when pressured by the people they look up to, is a true character evaluation.”
Read more“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.” – John Paul II
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