Quotes About Principle

The aim is freedom conscience and truth

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

Principle is a passion for truth.

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

Every dogma embodies some shade of truth to give it seeming currency.

If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.

Never compromise a principle or relinquish a vital truth.

We have to speak the truth always, at any cost, and no matter what.

Truth can prevail only in virtue of truth itself.

One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.

My commitment is to truth not consistency.

I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth.

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.

A noble truth is a sacred creed.

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

It has to be simple, but then you deliver them a principle: The simple truth is, as a matter of principle, we cannot spend more than we take in. Something - that changes the tone of the debate.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.