Quotes About Principles

Morality born of intimidation is immoral.

John Randolph of Virginia, a fierce opponent of the war, cautioned the House of Representatives in 1811 that twenty years of French radicalism had left their mark on the country's slave population. "God forbid, sir, that the Southern States should ever see an enemy on their shores, with these infernal principles of French fraternity in the van!

When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.

The great protagonists are those who fight for their ideas and ideals despite the fact that they receive no recognition at the hands of their contemporaries.

Nevertheless, in order to produce more equality and uniformity in the defence of any doctrine, its fundamental principles must be committed to writing. May these two volumes therefore serve as the building stones which I contribute to the joint work.

I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores

I'm not a moral relativist, I do think at the end of the day there's right and wrong, there's good intentions, and then there's bad paths that you can go on even if you have good intentions and we believe that.

Living on hypocrisy is not a healthy diet for patriots.

To the credit of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, people have been expelled or marginalized. Pat Buchanan in the '90s. Ron Paul, Rand Paul in the first decade of this century. Bill Buckley famously expelled the Birchers in 1964. It's been a movement that's tried to maintain its boundaries.

I will not change what I am for no amount of money or just kudos for my peers.

I don't believe in death penalty even though my background is soldiering.

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

I feel like young people, more than anyone in the country, always have their moral compass on perfectly straight.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

I must say that I recognized at once that we had never understood the meaning of these words, so common and yet so sacred: Justice, equity, liberty; that concerning each of these principles our ideas have been utterly obscure; and, in fact, that this ignorance was the sole cause, both of the poverty that devours us, and of all the calamities that have ever afflicted the human race.

Society was saved by the negation of its own principles, by a revolution in its religion, and by violation of its most sacred rights. In this revolution, the idea of justice spread to an extent that had not before been dreamed of, never to return to its original limits. Heretofore justice had existed only for the masters; it then commenced to exist for the slaves.

Half a century ago in this court I was sworn in as the Member of Parliament for George. And here I am today I am not better than General De Wet. I am not better than President Steyn. Like them I stand firm in my principles. I can do no different. So help me God.

It was glorious to acquire a throne by justice, yet more glorious to prefer justice before a throne; the same virtue which made the one appear worthy of regal power exalted the other to the disregard of it.

Conscience is the voice of the soul.

Because Buddhism presents a spiritual argument for the transformation (not the medication) of suffering, as well as specific and systematic methods of analyzing subjective distress, it now assists me in being able to address audiences about the principles and uses of analytic psychotherapy.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals

Pada waktu itulah ia mulai mengerti sedikit tentang kehormatan: dia sama nilainya dengan uang.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.