Quotes About Principles

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.

A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn the constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

I like honest men of all colors.

I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets.

Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

...a man does not die for business, but for ideals.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

Good men are bound by conscience and liberated by accountability.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.