Quotes About Principle

It is the sword distinguishing that which is enduring from that which is merely passing. The tick-tick-tick of time shuts out eternity. We live in this field of time. But what is reflected in this field is an eternal principle made manifest.

the Gaia principle. CAMPBELL: There you are, the whole planet as an organism.

There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil." --Luke Skywalker

You don't need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor. - Lt.j.g Daniel A Kaffee

In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel.

Doing the wrong thing to do the right thing

Doing the right thing is often a lonely road

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.

The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature. Only the born weakling can look upon this principle as cruel, and if he does so it is merely because he is of a feebler nature and narrower mind; for if such a law did not direct the process of evolution then the higher development of organic life would not be conceivable at all.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

Well, I don't believe in patronage.

If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.

No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Decent folk had to let indecent folk do their thing; that was the paradox of decency.