Quotes about Principles

I'm always going to stand up for my beliefs and stand behind them.

I taught my boys it is easy to follow a crowd. Anybody can do that. It takes a man to stand up for your principles. You cut your own path in life. Chase after whatever your heart's desire is, and instead of following the crowd, let somebody else follow you. That takes a little guts.

I think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective moral standard by which we live our lives.

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

The only guide to man is his conscience.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.

Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.