Quotes About Principle

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end.

Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.

I say that justice is truth in action.

Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

There's no God higher than truth.

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.

I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple.

It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base.