Quotes About Principle

God has given us a conscience superior to all law," said Wendell Phillips. The individual's conscience and the Golden Rule top any written law. There is such a thing as righteous lawbreaking.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

The great and radical vice in the construction of the existing Confederation is in the principle of LEGISLATION for STATES or GOVERNMENTS, in their CORPORATE or COLLECTIVE CAPACITIES, and as contradistinguished from the INDIVIDUALS of which they consist.

Opinion, whether well or ill founded, is the governing principle of human affairs.

It is a sound and important principle that the representative ought to be acquainted with the interests and circumstances of his constituents.

A sacred respect for the Constitutional Law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

The right of equal suffrage among the States is another exceptionable part of the Confederation. Every idea of proportion and every rule of fair representation conspire to condemn a principle, which gives to Rhode Island an equal weight in the scale of power with Massachusetts, or Connecticut, or New York; and to Delaware an equal voice in the national deliberations with Pennsylvania, or Virginia, or North Carolina.

I never did think the truth was a crime.

A gude conscience is the best divinity.

I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.

Martin Luther King Jr. could have argued that separate water fountains were too expensive, a waste of money. He would have been right about that. But cost was beside the point.

And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

When you stand for something, you've got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

I'm not trying to please everybody. I'm just trying to play for one team and do it the right way.

I try not to change my political point of view from paper to paper.