Quotes about Principles

Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.

The other parties campaign for parliamentary seats, more or less. We campaign for our principles!

A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

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

My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money… A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief they were enriching the country they were impoverishing.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature

A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.