It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Source: In Webster's NewWorld Best Book of Aphorisms, by Auriel Douglas, 1989.
-- Adlai Stevenson, (Feb 5 1900-1965), US diplomat, politician, lawyer; He was the democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956, and U.N. ambassador, 1961-65.