Quotes About Principle

We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good in every person.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

Man's best friend is his dogma.

The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.

A few honest men are better than numbers.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.

A man who renounces something is also a man who believes in something.

Honour is that which no man can give you and no man can take away.

No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.