Quotes about Principle

We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.

A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

The Bible is the anchor of our liberties.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

In the first place, the rule; as for the code, we shall see. Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. The tribute to Caesar is never anything but the remnants of the tribute to God. A prince is nothing in the presence of a principle.

The most important success principle of all was stated by Elbert Hubbard, one of the most prolific writers in American history, at the beginning of the twentieth century. He said, 'Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

This is the basic principle that underlies most religion, psychology, philosophy, and metaphysics. This law says, "Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle that they are laboring to dethrone: but if they argue without reason (which, in order to be consistent with themselves they must do), they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.

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