Quotes About Principle

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.

If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

The [National Socialist] Party...is convinced that our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The common interest before self-interest.

There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.

The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States.

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'

Let justice be done tho the heavens fall.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.

Do the right thing because it is right.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Honesty is better than any policy.

Honesty is the best policy.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Honesty is always the best policy.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.

Integrity has no need of rules.