Quotes about Principle

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

baseness that does not possess its own starting point [or principle] is always less harmful than that which does possess it, and intellect is such a starting point. It

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.

Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

It was a common saying among the Christians in the primitive Church, "The soul and the body make a man; the spirit and discipline make a Christian;" implying, that none could be real Christians, without the help of Christian discipline. But if this be so, is it any wonder that we find so few Christians; for where is Christian discipline

Principle, right, honesty, should ever be cherished.

The greatest want of the world is the want of men-men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.

Only by acting upon principle in the tests of daily life can we acquire power to stand firm and faithful in the most dangerous and most difficult positions.

Persecution and reproach await all who are imbued with the Spirit of Christ. The character of the persecution changes with the times, but the principle—the spirit that underlies it—is the same that has slain the chosen of the Lord ever since the days of Abel.—The Acts of the Apostles, pp. 575, 576.