Quotes about Principles

voters base their decisions on values as much as any other factor.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

the laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them.

There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it--when unpopular.

So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.

Be sure that the means you employ are as pure as the end you seek.