Quotes About Principle

But there are times in this world when it's not enough just not to do the wrong thing

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

The point is you are supposed to vote for the principle of the thing, not the itsy-bitsy detail about this percent and that percent.

The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage,—the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Industry rests on the iron law of economic determination. All history reveals that economic interests are the strongest ties that bind men together. That is not because men's hearts are evil & selfish. It is only a result of the inexorable law of life. The desire to live is the basic principle that compels men & women to seek a more suitable environment, so that they may live better & more happily.

I had a very long discussion with Justice Gorsuch in my office, and he pointed out to me that he is a co-author of a whole book on precedent. So, someone who devotes that much time to writing a book on precedent, I think, understands how important a principle that is in our judicial system.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.

I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong.

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.

If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them.

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.

The Declaration of Independence promised citizens equal access to economic opportunity. This was the powerful principle for which men were willing to fight the American Revolution, but it was never codified in law. When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, they assumed that the country's vast resources would ensure equality of opportunity.