Quotes About Principle

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

We talk on principle, but we act on interest.

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Man is what he believes.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.

I would rather be right than President.

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

Sir, I would rather be right than be President.

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

Two wrongs can never make a right.

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.