Quotes About Principle

In everything we do, as long as I have anything to say about it, we're going to follow the facts independently, wherever they may lead, to whomever they may lead, no matter who likes it.

Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.

I will form good habits and become their slave. And how will I accomplish this difficult feat? Through these scrolls it will be done, for each scroll contains a principle which will drive a bad habit from my life and replace it with one which will bring me closer to success.

The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security.

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

Truth will prevail.

I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.

Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

The principal cause of suffering during humanitarian crises is insufficient respect of applicable rules of international humanitarian law.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.

One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

The principle that a central bank, charged with controlling inflation, should be independent from the government is unassailable. It may also be true that it's easier for the central bank to guard its independence from political pressure when it mainly holds government securities.