Quotes About Principles

All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.

It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.

... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts.

There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man.

All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or as our principles. But as well to live in harmony with Mother Earth.

A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle can be proud of the friends they've gained and the enemies they've earned.

All men of honor are alone.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

When a man refuses to take money from those who give money to politicians, you don't pay the piper and sit back and let somebody else call the tune.

As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.