Quotes about Principle

hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy.

Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like unto him wherever he goes. What you are comes to you.

But two and two do equal four. Unless you give some strange, special meaning to equal. You can count it off for yourself: one two three four. If two and two really equalled three then everything would collapse into chaos. We would be in another universe, with other physical laws. In the existing universe two and two equal four. It is a universal rule, independent of us, not man-made at all. Even if you and I were to cease to be, two and two would go on equalling four.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.

A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.