Quotes about Principle
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
Avoid popularity if you would have peace
— Abraham Lincoln
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
Remember again the principle: We will never be over those things that God has set under us until we learn to be under those things that God has placed over us. There is strength through surrender.
— Adrian Rogers
We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Grace interpreted as a principle, pecca fortiter as a principle, grace at a low cost, is in the last resort simply a new law, which brings neither help nor freedom. Grace as a living word, pecca fortiter as our comfort in tribulation and as a summons to discipleship, costly grace is the only pure grace, which really forgives sins and gives freedom to the sinner.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth, the love of God taught as the Christian "conception" of God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
— Andrew Johnson
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Of two evils, choose neither.
— Charles Spurgeon
Are you a communist? No I am an anti-fascist For a long time? Since I have understood fascism.
— Ernest Hemingway
In principle, I would have brought you a bottle of brand.' 'In principle,' Para said and smiled, for the first time, showing yellowed teeth. 'Such a beautiful expression. Would you like some Grappa?
— Ernest Hemingway