most decisions are not hard if you trust making decisions from consistent principles

Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

As a process, choosing for myself turned out to be much more valuable in the long run, rather than simply accepting or rejecting a single point of view.

The voters selected us, in short, because they had confidence in our judgement and our ability to exercise that judgement from a position where we could determine what were their own best interest, as a part of the nation's interest.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.

Clearly, what our newsmen call 'hard-liners' have been vindicated.

I brought a philosophical road map to government. It was bitterly opposed by some but, for a long time, supported by more. Both supporters and critics knew what I stood for.

How clear it is they were wise,
when they conceded their defeat,
for it is an achievement to have bowed
to the supremacy of reason!

There is a strong tendency among businessmen to emphasize that their decisions are based on 'facts' and thus to make favorable outcomes the consequence of perspicacity and 'judgment' rather than good fortune.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

A firm bargain and a right reckoning make long friends.