Sentence examples similar to principled mistake from inspiring English sources

I think this argument is a mistake, but it is principled.

Establishment conservatives may be prone to mistake their jealousy for a principled conviction that Mr. Bannon is unsocialized and dangerous.

Principled though they were, both boycotts may well have been mistakes.

His gamble in opposing the Iraq war was principled and brave (albeit, in the opinion of The Economist, mistaken).

But upon examination, these premises turn out to be mistaken, and they lead Feldman to offer a false choice between "unprincipled" activism and "principled" restraint.

They are principled.

Strong, detailed, clear, principled.

Note the "principled" part.

This is not principled.

"How principled of you".

Gosh, so brave, so principled.