Quotes About Principle

God is love, and anyone who doesn't love others has never known him.

Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle.

Real integrity means an answer. It doesn't just mean - it doesn't mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.

Why should anybody wait to do what is right until everybody does it?

Ease of going was translated without pause into a principled unwillingness to stop.

When he "stood up against this southern way of life," he had to stand alone; the other members of the union fled. He knew the exultation of his stand: "That made me merry in a way. I done what was right . . . "But he also knew its tragedy: "When they shot me it didn't shake me, when they arrested me it didn't shake me. But it shook me to see my friends was but few.

men must act on what they believe right, not on what they believe probable.

Mi devoto amor por la verdad se halla, gracias a Dios, muy por encima de mi respeto por las personas.

But even democracy ruins itself by excess—of democracy. Its basic principle is the equal right of all to hold office and determine public policy. This is at first glance a delightful arrangement; it becomes disastrous because the people are not properly equipped by education to select the best rulers and the wisest courses (588). "As to the people they have no understanding, and only repeat what their rulers are pleased to tell them" (

The principle of democracy is freedom, the principle of war is discipline; each requires the absence of the other.

a handful of might is better than a bagful of right.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Enthusiastic admiration is the first principle of knowledge and the last

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.

The danger comes when a distrust of doctrinaire social systems eases over into a dissolute disregard for principle. A disregard for enduring principle delivers a society, eviscerated, over to the ideologists.

If a party stands for nothing but reelection it indeed stands for nothing.

It was like a meeting between two iron knights of the old time, not for material gain but for principle—honor denied with honor, courage denied with courage—the deed done not for the end but for the sake of the doing, put to the ultimate test and proving nothing save the finality of death and the vanity of all endeavor.

Anyway, there is a certain integral consistency which, whether it be right or wrong, a man must cherish because it alone will ever permit him to die.

Pero no comprende que quizá un hombre pueda hacer algo únicamente porque sabe que está bien, porque la armonía de las cosas exige que se haga?.

There are tumults of the mind, when, like the great convulsions of Nature, all seems anarchy and returning chaos; yet often, in those moments of vast disturbance, as in the strife of Nature itself, some new principle of order, or some new impulse of conduct, develops itself, and controls, and regulates, and brings to an harmonious consequence, passions and elements which seem only to threaten despair and subversion.

I am what I might term an unprejudiced sceptic. I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact.

I am not given to either believing or disbelieving things 'on principle,' as I have found many idiots prone to be, and what is more, some of them not ashamed to boast of the insane fact.