Quotes About Principles

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

If you're willing to stand for what you believe in ... you won't need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.

I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore.

People don't buy what you do; they buy what you stand for.

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

I have always loved the law. It is the very foundation of our great country. It's the exceptional foundation of America.

In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

Happiness Is Dependent Upon Choosing To Function Within The Laws And Principles Of Kingdom Of God