Quotes About Principles

At heart, American conservatives like myself are believers in the Constitution. We believe that the principles embodied in the Constitution are enduring, and that to whatever extent we deviate from them we put our liberties at risk. Our views are consistent because we believe in absolute truths and the essential soundness, even righteousness, of the Founder's vision of government.

Well, I believe there are very practical answers to what makes a genius tick. I believe there are principles that we can isolate and use to better our own lives. I believe that genius is a path that we can all take and derive much benefit, happiness, fulfillment, and success from...not a genetic windfall or divine gift. Ultimately, this is the path to greatness.

Thus, we must be insistent on not only our right to express our views, but others to do the same (even if we don't agree with them), lest we all lose our freedom to speak our minds. Voltaire once said, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." We would be smart to uphold this ideal.

should Americans ever find themselves faced with an incorrigible government of totalitarian oppression, a government that has abandoned the very principles this nation was founded upon and that reconstituted a slavery like that of the past, then the people have the natural, inalienable right to change the government as they see fit, and the spirit of this amendment clearly applies.

Morality has its own civil wars, with its own victims in its own time and place.

We may be black-hearted men when our turn comes but there is a seam in men called justice that nothing burns off complete. Caught-His-Horse-First

This fight against drilling in the Arctic Refuge is a fight about our principles. It's about standing up for our environment, our families and our future, and I won't give up this fight.

Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.

There is nothing that we could call 'new', because once Christianity had been proclaimed, once Christ came and established His Church, there is nothing more that can be new. This is the preparation for the end of the world, and people who are penetrated by the principles of Orthodox tradition do not expect anything new in this world.

The ends do not justify the means

It was not his custom or his pleasure to listen to gossip or instructions from people who were strangers to him, even if they did share the same skin colour, or religion, or traditions.

Never be afraid to be honest and stand up for what is right, Stella," he said pointedly. "Just remember to balance your courage with wisdom.

A man without enemies is a man without character.

The American democracy simply could not move forward after the civil rights era without adding to its great democratic principles an explicit social morality based on the insight that racism is immoral.

He remembered his own code that he had made up when he was about twelve, a code of three points only: 'Never betray a friend. Never betray beauty. Never betray the sword.' By that last he had meant being brave when he was afraid.

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing." ~ Margaret Thatcher

There is no better time than now to rededicate yourself to the principles taught by Jesus, and to teach your children about Him too!

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed.

If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money.

The five principles of aloha, when practiced together, awaken our awareness of our human potential and the sacredness of our life.