Quotes About Principles

But Lincoln says something about the future that's pretty amazing. He says that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom. And it does. The Reconstruction Amendments—the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth—give us a new set of founding principles.

Katakan padanya, biar seribu peluru menembus tubuhku, aku tetap tidak akan membiarkan perilaku tidak senonohnya.

To bring up our children in light and truth we must ourselves be sources of light and truth. We must not only teach our children true principles but 'bring them up' surrounded by and immersed in light and truth. The way we live (our 'traditions'), the example we set, and the values that guide our actions must lead our children to God. Indeed, our children learn who God is and what he is like by the way that we treat them.

Not everything was legal, but nothing was immoral, and that was my guide these days.

Wilderness areas are places to explore deeply yet lightly; to exercise freedom but also restraint, to manage but also leave alone, to bring us face-to-face with a dilemma in our democracy. How do we convince people to save something they may never see, touch, or hear? A starving man can't eat his illusions, let alone his principles.

Not to have a correct political view is like having no soul.

What all ethical theories critically lack, Christianity uniquely offers: the perfect, ethical example. Christians are not restricted solely to abstract principles for ethical conduct, because in Jesus we have a model for good living.

the uncontrolled senses are considered plunderers. The good position one attains by executing religious principles is wasted as the plundering senses take it away

In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

I'm grateful for believing in a religion that can naturally adapt to changing times yet uphold timeless values and principles.

Religion is the only solid Base of morals and that Morals are the only possible Support of free governments.

Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.