Quotes About Principles

You can put your principles into a match-box but what fills the whole room is your instinctive responses.

The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.

On December 16, 2008, George W. Bush said that "to make sure the economy doesn't collapse. I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system." And on January 8, 2009, Barack Obama said, "Only government can break the vicious cycles that are crippling our economy.

Perhaps the greatest pleasure in science comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of simple principles in a surprising way. These

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

War is fundamental. A man's views on war tell you the basic axioms of his view on life.

It is character, not numbers, that make the world go 'round.

if men are only naturally taught, instead of having any distinct, solid, or certain knowledge, they fasten only on contradictory principles, and, in consequence, worship an unknown God.

And this is the main difference between the gospel and philosophy: for   though the philosophers speak excellently and with great judgment on   the subject of morals, yet whatever excellency shines forth in their   precepts, it is, as it were, a beautiful superstructure without a   foundation; for by omitting principles, they offer a mutilated   doctrine, like a body without a head.

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will. Integrity is not a search for the rewards of integrity. Maybe all you ever get for it is the largest kick in the ass the world can provide. It is not supposed to be a productive asset.

For in spite of itself any movement that thinks and acts in terms of an 'ism becomes so involved in reaction against other 'isms that it is unwittingly controlled by them. For it then forms its principles by reaction against them instead of by a comprehensive, constructive survey of actual needs, problems, and possibilities.

You should live by, what you claim to believe in. And if you choose to deviate, you should be ashamed of either defying your own beliefs, or believing those beliefs.

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

Don't never participate in no bad scenes, he reminded himself; that was his motto in life.

I'm pro-life. I'm pro-gun. I'm pro-family. And I'm pro-business.

It is important to gain knowledge, yes, but any advantage we will have in the eternal life to come will be a knowledge, I am sure, of those saving principles upon which our eternal life will depend.

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.

Voters never have to question where I stand - my principles or priorities. I am a pro-freedom, pro-America and pro-life conservative.

In everything I do, whether in business, philanthropy or my personal life, I am guided by my inner truth, my values.

I have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. I have always fought for the same values and principles.

Traditional values are big in my life.