Quotes about Principle
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
— Abraham Lincoln
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.
— Mark Twain
the time is always right to do the right thing
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ, as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage
— Edmund Burke
where there is no sound reason, there can be no real virtue.
— Edmund Burke
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
— Albert Schweitzer
A sacred respect for the Constitutional Law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
— Alexander Hamilton