Quotes About Principles

We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

I hope you'll have the kind of life where what you stand for is so important that it makes some people outright hostile. You won't know how strong your beliefs really are until you have to defend them.

Some of us as individuals find abortion offensive to our most basic principles or morality, but that cannot control our decision,' she said. 'Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate our own moral code.

More tells his son-in-law Roper, "Whoever hunts for me, Roper, God or Devil, will find me hiding in the thickets of the law! And I'll hide my daughter with me! Not hoist her up to the mainmast of your seagoing principles! They put about too nimbly!"5

Fine scholar though he was, he was an even better teacher; and it may truly be said of him...that in turning men's minds to the Middle Ages he 'stimulated their mental thirst...silently indoctrinating them with nobler ideas, which might afterwards be appealed to as first principles'.

It was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back.

The proper function of any school is to train character, and all its studies are of importance only as means by which this end can be attained.

He was trying to get me to come inside and away from the scene, but I said, "No." I said, "We have to stay here and watch because this is wrong.

Ethics is knowing what you have a right to do, and what is right to do' Potter Stewart

Reagan called on Americans to unify not around blood and soil but around the Constitution: "As long as we remember our first principles and believe in ourselves, the future will always be ours.

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.

And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.

On 27 October 1946 the French constitution was finally changed to include among the basic principles of the Republic the law 'guaranteeing women equal rights to those of men in all spheres', and the national elections a month later in November were the first in which women in France were able to participate.

I ask no other epitaph on my tomb but "'SHE TRIED TO FOLLOW TRUTH.

The first set of principles lays out some habits of mind we would do well to adopt, starting with this one: whenever possible, we should offload information, externalize it, move it out of our heads and into the world.

The FBI that I see is people, decent people, committed to the highest principles of dignity and professionalism and respect... Now do we make mistakes? You bet we make mistakes, just like everybody who's human makes mistakes.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

Profit per se is not my motive.

While you cannot deliver policies without principles, you cannot deliver principles without having power. You have quickly to move to a stage where, emphasising your principles, you build a programme, then call for popular support.

While I am willing to compromise on process or on programs, I will not compromise my principles, nor would I expect those I work with to do so.

I am proud to be a progressive.

As Democrats and progressives look to the future, we should remember our most essential values.