Quotes About Principle

Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Aikido is the Way and Principle of harmonizing Heaven, Earth and Man.

The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.

I am a man of principle. I will stick by my principles. I will tell the truth no matter where the chips fall.

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable