Quotes About Principle

Truth contains a vital principle and will manifest itself.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.

I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.

Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.

I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

The foundation of a man's duty as a man is in truth. Beyond this there is nothing to be said.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free.

God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love.

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.

The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion.