Quotes about Principle
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
— Edmund Burke
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence
— Frederick Douglass
To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
This is a very imperfect analogy, because the nature of a thing is not a core but a principle.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
— Walt Whitman
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
— George Washington
There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the people have a right to a substantive part in its discipline and government.
— Charles Hodge
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
— Malcolm X
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who is for or against it.
— Malcolm X
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against.
— Malcolm X
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
— Malcolm X