Quotes about Principle

I never did think the truth was a crime.

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.

It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.

I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they'd been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. You get what you pay for.

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

I'd rather be biblically correct than politically correct.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?