Quotes about Principles

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?

I've never attempted or even tried or will ever throw anyone under the bus. That's just not me. I don't do that.

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.

The game is played not to protect the rules; rather, the rules are made to protect the game. That

The moral law will always stand over and above and against a heart that seeks to be its own guide. One

As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter tears of conviction. There were many principles in which Clevinger believed passionately. He was crazy.