Quotes About Principle

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

As a general principle, the American people would be well served by the active pursuit of effective policies to support longer-run growth in productivity.

If you look at Citadel today, that's really - the founding principle of the firm is a real pursuit of talent, a pursuit of people who have a passion for finance, and a pursuit of individuals who make good decisions day in and day out.

Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.

A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

I have only ever followed my conscience.

My deepest desire is to do the thing that is first and foremost just.

If I am ever forced to choose between my identity as a Tamilian and an award from the central government, I will choose the former.

I fought for the rule of law in America.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

If you have ever read my columns, you know how important free speech is to me... and how important it should be to everyone.

Freedom is not negotiable.

We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.

Nothing is more important to me, and nothing was more important to our founding fathers, than freedom of religion.

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

1. It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. 2. Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. 3. The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality. 4. Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Law is the ultimate science.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.

I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

So Father Ring went off in the lofty mood of a man who has defended a principle at a great sacrifice to himself, but that very night he began to brood and he continued to brood till that sickly looking voluptuary of a ten-shilling note took on all the radiance and charm of a virgin of seventeen.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.