Quotes About Principle

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Virtue is its own reward.

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

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

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

I'd rather be right than President.

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

Reformers who are always compromising, have not yet grasped the idea that truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

the time is always right to do the right thing

Truth is more important than modesty

Make information your servant, perspective your reward, and openness your principle.

I stand for something. I stand for light. Even when I sleep!

Let thy true religion be to act right.

Wisdom is using your head, separating right from wrong, and doing what is right.

Well, a man can but hold fast to what he believes right, and even the opponent he baulks should value him for that.

Great ambition without contribution is without significance. The Emperor's Club

Oft have I marked, with silent pleasure and admiration, the force and prevalence, through the United States, of the principle that the supreme power resides in the people, and that they never part with it. It may be called the panacea in politics.

If he believed he was doing the right thing, other people's opinions didn't matter.

Evil will Never win from Righteousness

Honor is earned, not given,

Like "the tyranny of structurelessness," the tyranny of tolerance has promoted an ethic of value freedom that has been allowed to stand as an unexamined principle among certain groups of women. From an unexamined principle, it is a short distance to an unexamined life.