Quotes about Principle
I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.
— Calvin Coolidge
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
— Abraham Lincoln
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].
— James Madison
Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.
— John Tillotson
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
— William Hazlitt
The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.
— Confucius
No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.
— Gordon Hinckley
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.
— Aristotle
Truth does not blush.
— Tertullian
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
— Theodore Roosevelt