Quotes About Principle

What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls into convulsions at the approach of freedom.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both

Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this country.

The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are today being manipulated and erroneously taken too far.

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

Say what you mean to do...and take it for granted you mean to do right. Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one...you will wrong him and wrong yourself by equivocation of any kind.

Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

Friendship like credit is highest where it is not used.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

Indulge in to what is right. Avoid what is wrong.

What is Right will always be Right. What is Wrong will always be Wrong. Yet in order for Truth to prevail, we must be strong.

The most important principle for self discovery and to taste success is rather than changing other's attitude, change your own. And always remember, the same sun which melts the butter also hardens the clay.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian

No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.

One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.

When I am the weaker, I ask you for my freedom, because that is your principle; but when I am the stronger, I take away your freedom, because that is my principle

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say, What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.