We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.
Jesse HelmsSuch schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.
Jesse HelmsThey should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.
Jesse HelmsThe challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.
Jesse HelmsOn your principles, you should never yield; you should be prepared to be defeated. Nobody likes to be defeated, but you should let everybody know in the most articulate and thoughtful and civil way you can (you don't go out and pick fights with people) that in certain matters that you define as matters of principle you will not budge, you cannot yield, you will not compromise. If you don't have the votes or the winning argument, then you stand to be defeated and rolled over, and you'll just have to come back another day.
Jesse Helms