Quotes About Principle

The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute- he simply speaks and does what is right.

Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics and history.

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil.

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.

A man lives by believing something.

It is well said, in every sense, that a man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

I believe the declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

No honest man will argue on every side

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.

A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.

The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.