Upholding quotes:

Send

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential. -- Joichi Ito
Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument; it means effort and endeavor to reach compromise and long-lasting consensus. These form the cornerstones of the only form of political system that can guarantee freedom. -- Wolfgang Thierse
There is no more important value than upholding the right to life in all circumstances. -- Sean Brady
Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations. -- Ban Ki-moon
A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good. -- Barbara Jordan
As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations. -- J. William Fulbright
China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development. -- Hu Jintao
Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to protect the security of this country - our national security. -- Wesley Clark
I will continue my consistent record of voting for lower taxes, less spending and fewer regulations to make our government more effective and efficient while upholding our Constitution. -- Roscoe Bartlett
Through the 1990s, 'Reason' was a voice of 'dissident feminism,' upholding the equal dignity of both sexes and supporting the rights of individuals against a government that had gone mad over sexual harassment. -- Virginia Postrel
As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt. -- Michelle Bachelet
In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing, he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken. -- Loretta Lynch
Britain is still seen as a beacon for decency, for democracy, for vigorous judges upholding the rule of law and, dare I say it, a free press. I respect the press in theory, but when you see some of the things it writes about you, it's not exactly a happy relationship. -- Cherie Blair
In football, it's the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be. -- Lou Holtz
My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride. -- Rahul Dravid
Renewing the promise of America begins with upholding the dignity of human life. -- George W. Bush
A prayerful life, spiritual act of upholding all that you are capable of being. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Without God upholding the universe from moment to moment, nothing could continue to be. -- R. C. Sproul
I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it. -- Benjamin Disraeli
There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices. -- Paddy Ashdown
The armed struggle is not ending just now. We are upholding a ceasefire. We have our arms with us. -- Robert Mugabe
Adrift upon the sea of time, the lonely god wanders from shore to distant shore, upholding the laws of the stars above." -- Christopher Paolini
May it not be that the brighter stars are like our Sun, the upholding and energizing centers of systems of living beings? -- William Huggins
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong. -- Theodore Roosevelt
No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law, just because they are responsible for upholding the law. -- Rahm Emanuel
Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world. -- Oliver D. Crisp
I hope all of you will inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of China's religious circle in patriotism and religious piety and in upholding peace. -- Jia Qinglin
Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social engineering. -- Joseph Sobran
[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we call the people." -- Jeffrey Rosen
We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard. -- Barack Obama
The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles and our enemies are attacking them. -- William Howard Taft
Next to being one in worshipping God there is nothing in this world upon which the Church should be more united that in upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States -- David O. McKay
Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then . . . we conclude that . . . the stubborn sectaries must be put to death. -- Martin Luther

Send