Quotes About Principle

He will hew the line of right, let the chips fall where they may.

Do well and right, and let the world sink.

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act accordingly to their beliefs.

What a man believes, he will die for. What a man merely thinks, he will change his mind about.

The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.

The only incorruptible thing about us.

Liberty of conscience (when people have consciences) is rightly considered the most indispensable of liberties.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

We may draw good outof evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

A precedent embalms a principle.

All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

Conscience, as I understand it, is the impulse to do the right thing because it is right, regardless of personal ends, and has nothing whatever to do with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.

The principle was right there-you couldn't miss it. The more you did for your customers, the more they did for us.

A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable or dangerous to do so.

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.

You have to be truthful and believable in whatever you do and that is the founding principle of acting.

You have to be as truthful as you possibly can. That's always been my philosophy.