Quotes About Principle

the end, the difference between them is a matter of moral judgment: Gordievsky was on the side of the good; and Ames was on his own side.

I thought that Dodd's comments were less about principle and more a reflection of his assessment that bashing the Fed was politically popular.

I still considered myself a conservative.

Ronald Reagan was not a god. He himself would have said that. Don't follow people. Follow principle.

Don't follow people. Follow principle.

As historian Richard Tarnas writes, "As the means by which human intelligence could attain universal understanding, the Logos was a divine revelatory principle, simultaneously operative within the human mind and the natural world." And philosophers were tasked with uncovering this Logos; by doing so, they would be fulfilling both their own telos and discovering the telos of mankind more broadly.14

C. H. Dodd puts it this way: "To over-spiritualize religion is to weaken it ethically. ,286

We had a rock to defend, and we defended it. And the name of that rock is Liberty, and in that name I speak.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

I say that justice is truth in action.

A greater principle is at stake than the fate of any particular president.

Protection is not a principle but an expedient.

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.

Justice is truth in action.

Justice is truth in action. ~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

That it is better that 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved.

No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both

He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.

Keep Conscience clear, then never fear.

I balanc'd some time between principle and inclination, till I recollected that, when the fish were opened, I saw smaller fish taken out of their stomachs; then thought I, "If you eat one another, I don't see why we mayn't eat you." So I din'd upon cod very heartily,

discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforced, their aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good