Quotes About Principles

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Openness, respect, integrity - these are principles that need to underpin pretty much every other decision that you make.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

We should be led by principles and morals and not by men.

There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles and our conscience.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

I would never try to motivate anyone to follow me. I would motivate him to follow certain principles.

Sometimes you're going to be shoved into a corner, and even though it's against your principles, against the way that you like to play the game, you're going to have to protect your own players.