Quotes About Principle

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion.

Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

Men of principle are sure to be bold, but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.

The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.

No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

My Christian faith teaches me marriage is between man and a woman. I'm not evolving with the polls. I'm not changing like Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

All that evil requires is an absence of virtue, where somebody didn't make a stand.

Truth does not blush.

Could you not portray the good sides of life and proclaim love as a principle, instead of endless bitterness?" There is only one expression for truth: the thought which repudiates injustice. If insistence on the good sides of life is not sublated in the negative whole, it transfigures its own opposite: violence.

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy you don't make them because they are cheap you don't make them because they're popular you make them because *they're right*.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.