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Quotes About Principles

Destroying human life in the hopes of saving human life is not ethical...
~ George Walker Bush
Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
~ George Washington
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
~ George Washington
Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.
~ George Washington
Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
~ George Washington
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
~ George Washington
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
~ George Washington
but he has never played the demagogue.
~ George Weigel
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
~ George Will
A man given to vice is always an idealist.
~ Georges Bernanos
Si parte da un dettaglio qualsiasi, talvolta di poco conto, e senza volerlo si giunge a scoprire grandi princìpi.
~ Georges Simenon
America now is stumbling through the darkness of hatred and divisiveness. Our values, our principles, and our determination to succeed as a free and democratic people will give us a torch to light the way. And we will survive and become the strongernot only because of a patriotism that stands for love of country, but a patriotism that stands for love of people.
~ Gerald Ford
Attitudinal Healing is not a religion or religious. It is a practical spirituality that supports and is compatible with all faiths and belief systems. People from many cultures, faiths, and denominations, as well as those who follow no faith at all, are welcome to use the principles of Attitudinal Healing.
~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
~ Gerald R. Ford
The two most sacred documents known to man are the Bible and the Declaration of Independence. Better that a whole generation of men, women, and children should pass away by violent death than a word of either should be violated in this country.
~ Geraldine Brooks
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.
~ Henrik Ibsen
The so-called new morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
~ Lord Shawcross
It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
~ Adlai Stevenson
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
~ A. J. Ayer
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
~ Italian proverb
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it they are wrong.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Morality is not respectability.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it, I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.
~ John Adams