Quotes About Principle

A development, to be faithful, must retain both the doctrine and the principle with which it started. Doctrine

Doctrine without its correspondent principle remains barren, if not lifeless, of which the Greek Church seems an instance; or

It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians. The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose.

principle cannot complain of a war against civilians. The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result?

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

I am the avenging sword of taste and decency

Without ever having read Clausewitz—at least as far as we know—the president revived that strategist's great principle that war must be the instrument of politics, rather than the other way around.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.

I don't hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.

Whenever equality rights and religious rights collide, equality rights trump.

Equality, therefore, becomes the criterion because we can handle all that in process, but we can't handle that as principle without infringing on freedom.

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching or making you do it; you do it because it's the right thing to do.

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

The pain is not about having cheap people around…. real pain is the fact that there are some people with a price to start with.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

Believe it in your heart; say it with your mouth. That is the principle of faith. You can have what you say.

But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe.

Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.

The principle of faith is as firm as the very pillars of heaven.

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority