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Quotes about Principle

Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.
— Charles Spurgeon
Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
— Edmund Burke
I believe that freedom is a gift from an Almighty to every man, woman, and child; that is a principle that was important to me during my presidency and I think it's an important principle.
— George W. Bush
Man believes and lives.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.
— Pierre Corneille
I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.
— Herman Melville
If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?
— John Adams
The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
— John Milton
We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.
— William McKinley
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
— Mark Twain
Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.
— Stephen Covey
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
— Confucius