Quotes about Principle

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Though he had determined upon this in the first moment of joyful enthusiasm, yet the delay of four-and-twenty hours had made a material change in his feelings; his most virtuous resolves were always rather the effect of sudden impulse than of steady principle. But when the tide of passion had swept away the landmarks, he had no method of ascertaining the boundaries of right and wrong.

Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

One principle is the universality of freedom. I'm a freedom lover.

Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.

The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are today being manipulated and erroneously taken too far.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.