Quotes About Principle

You have that within you which is ever impelling you toward the upward and advancing way; and that impelling something is the divine Principle of Power; you must obey it without question.

Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.

The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go...

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.)

Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.

The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

The infidelity of the Gentile world, and that more especially of men of rank and learning in it, is resolved into a principle which, in my judgment, will account for the inefficacy of any argument, or any evidence whatever, viz. contempt prior to examination.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep man in everlasting ignorance. That principle is condemnation before investigation.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho' awkwardly, for his Word's sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.

I invoke the genius of the Constitution.

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

El acercamiento es un principio; mantenerse unidos, un progreso; trabajar juntos, el verdadero éxito. HENRY FORD

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

No foundation. All the way down the line.

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just,And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel,Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

Rightly to be greatIs not to stir without great argument,But greatly to find quarrel in a strawWhen honor's at the stake.

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.