Quotes About Principles

He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. —written for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor , 11 November 1755

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe. That he governs the World by his Providence. That he ought to be worshiped. That the most acceptable Service we can render him, is doing good to his other Children. That the Soul of Man is immortal, and will be treated with Justice in another life, respect[ing] its Conduct in this. These I take to be fundamental Principles of all sound Religion, and I regard them as you do, in whatever Sect I meet them.

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.

School and other education constantly proceed upon false principles, and show a clumsy apparatus pointed at a false mark; but your apparatus is simple, and the mark a true one;

It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.

But when did you ever undertake a voyage for the purpose of reviewing your own principles and getting rid of any of them that proved unsound?

grew convinc'd that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life; and I form'd written resolutions, which still remain in my journal book, to practice them ever while I lived.

Chi è pronto a dar via le proprie libertà fondamentali per comprarsi briciole di temporanea sicurezza, non merita né la libertà né la sicurezza.

no qualities were so likely to make a poor man's fortune as those of probity and integrity.

Do not do that which you would not have known.

You may be more happy than princes if you will be more virtuous.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable the principles of it are troublesome.

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

I could have just received royalty checks every month by lending my name to a collection, but I didn't want to do that. My name is a reflection of me.

I'm one of those that have said, one of my key principles is I will not support a health care reform bill that is not deficit-neutral, period.

It is important that we return to the principles of the Dublin agreement and help Greece with European funds to accommodate refugees.

I refuse to bow to the cancel mob.

I refuse to take shortcuts.