If he opts for the latter, he will win plaudits among those who admire people for their principles.
But some attendees responded that journalists rarely get the right, best case to fight for their principles.
Macaulay reformed archaic discriminatory laws in Calcutta more out of distaste for their principles than dislike of their practical impact.
For a moment I was almost about to cheer the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers for standing up for their principles.
Back in the 1980s, our media portrayed Prague dissidents as selfless academics who were reduced to poverty for their principles, when they were in fact receiving $600-monthly 600-monthly stipends
"History will honor these departments and their leaders for their principles, professionalism and independence," Anthony Romero, the organization's director, said in a statement, "and we urge their fellow leaders around the nation to join them.
Still, historically informed descriptions of what people believed don't explain why colonists stood up for their principles only some of the time, and why they disagreed so acrimoniously that they were willing to dip one another in tar barrels.
"The best way to get to 60 is to have a core group of Republicans who really do what they say and stand for their principles," Mr. DeMint said.
For on Thursday June 21 in London, a group of people are going to take a stand for their principles in a way that involves real courage, admirable courage, and which at the same time lights a torch of hope in a dark quadrant of the world's affairs.
Still, some Republicans in Congress, especially in the House, are uneasy about Mr. Bush's willingness to give ground so readily to Democrats on education, saying they would have preferred to fight for their principles, as they did on taxes, even at the risk of defeat.
