Quotes About Principle

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

I would rather be right than be President.

I would rather be right than President.

Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.

I'd rather be right than be President

Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

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

How soon will Ford blow up?" Nobody knows how many thousand times it has been asked since. It is asked only because of the failure to grasp that a principle rather than an individual is at work, and the principle is so simple that it seems mysterious.

The genius of the United States of America is Christian in the broadest sense, and its destiny is to remain Christian. This carries no sectarian meaning with it, but relates to a basic principle which differs from other principles in that it provides for liberty with morality, and pledges society to a code of relations based on fundamental Christian conceptions of human rights and duties.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means... He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents...' In short, the end justifies the means.

É a pureza, e não a estabilidade, o princípio fundador desta conceção de ordem mundial.

Religious faith always transcends culture, and is the integrating principle and power of man's cultural striving.

whereas the philosopher seeks unity of principle, and consistency of method at the risk of paradox, the unphilosophic man is apt to hold different principles at once, and to apply different methods in more or less confused combination.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

There is not only nothing in common between the churches as such and Christianity, except the name, but they represent two principles fundamentally opposed and antagonistic to one another. One represents pride, violence, self-assertion, stagnation, and death; the other, meekness, penitence, humility, progress, and life. We cannot serve these two masters; we have to choose between them.

No sort of activity is likely to be lasting if it is not founded on self-interest, that's a universal principle, a philosophical principle

In any compromise between food and poison," Ayn Rand writes, "it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

Socialism" for the Nazis denotes the principle of collectivism as such and its corollary, statism—in every field of human action, including but not limited to economics. "To be a socialist," says Goebbels, "is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole."9