Quotes about Principles

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life--the unborn--without diminishing the value of all human life.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.