Quotes About Principles

The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy.

Religion, morality, and patriotism are feelings that are manifested only when they are outraged.

Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.

Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.

A New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing anything it just keeps you from enjoying it.

When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.