I believe in the importance of staying true to your values and principles.

Man’s principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.

Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building

When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.

Let it be a settled principle in our minds, in reading the Bible, that Christ is the central sun of the whole book. So long as we keep Him in view, we shall never greatly err in our search for spiritual knowledge. Once losing sight of Christ, we shall find the whole Bible dark and full of difficulty.

The principle of copyright is this. It is a tax on readers for the purpose of giving a bounty to writers. The tax is an exceedingly bad one; it is a tax on one of the most innocent and most salutary of human pleasures; and never let us forget, that a tax on innocent pleasures is a premium on vicious pleasure

If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of

We ought to cherish the body. Our body’s substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God

Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded. Thy are barred from the latter functions by a great principle in free government, analogous to that which separates the sword from the purse, or the power of executing from the power of enacting laws.

Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will rarely be at a loss for other pretexts.

In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.

The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body

You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

I used to like John McCain, too, but I must admit that was because he was bucking his party to do things I agreed with. I would not have had that reaction if, say, Bernie Sanders decided to rebel out of principle and support privatizing Social Security.

Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

Architecture is the beginning of something because it’s – if you’re not involved in first principles, if you’re not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it’s cake decoration

If you believe in equal rights, then what do “women’s rights,” “gay rights,” etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all.

To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle

The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial principle will become harmful if carried far enough

Unlike what neo-liberals say, market and democracy clash at a fundamental level. Democracy runs on the principle of ‘one man (one person), one vote’. The market runs on the principle ‘one dollar, one vote’.

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered; and the easier repaired when disordered..d

Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love

Let it then be heard, and let man learn to feel that the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity, and not on conquest

Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion

And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any

The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot

Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.

Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man

No two beings, and no two situations, are really commensurable with each other. To become aware of this fact is to undergo a sort of crisis. But it is with this crisis in our moral awareness as a starting-point, that there becomes possible that cry from us towards the creative principle, and that demand by it on us, which each must answer in his own way.

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Keep steady in the view of the great principles for which you contend. The safety of your homes and the lives of all you hold dear depend upon your courage and exertions. Let each man resolve to be victorious, and that the right of self government, liberty and peace shall find him a defender.

As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done – the honor of the integrity of principle.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation.

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.

Teach principles not formulas.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.

Things change, although I believe that certain principles – of attacking, entertaining football – should always be protected.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

All of humanity now has the option to “make it” successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.

As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health to illness or accident. You can lose your wealth to all manner of unpredictable sources. What are not easily stolen from you without your cooperation are your principles and your values. They are your most important possessions and, if carefully selected and nurtured, will well serve you and your fellow man.

The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health to illness or accident. You can lose your wealth to all manner of unpredictable sources. What are not easily stolen from you without your cooperation are your principles and your values. They are your most important possessions and, if carefully selected and nurtured, will well serve you and your fellow man.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

I am a libertarian with a small ‘l’ and a Republican with a capital ‘R’. And I am a Republican with a capital ‘R’ on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events.

Obey the principles without being bound by them

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.

A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.

Concentrate a big force to strike at a small section of the enemy force” remains a principle of field operations in guerrilla warfare.

Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.

Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world

Circumstances should never alter principles

The roots of violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principles.

Relationships are based on four principles – respect, understanding, acceptance, and appreciation.

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.

I have a tattoo on my arm, that says, in ancient Greek, ‘I am certain of nothing.’ I think that’s a good operating principle

The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists of the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

Even though I’m only fourteen, I know what I want, I know who’s right and who’s wrong, I have my own opinions, ideas and principles, and though it may sound odd coming from a teenager, I feel I’m more of a person than a child—I feel I’m completely independent of others

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

A failure to apply positive reinforcement is a failure of application, not a failure of the principle.

Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love

I discovered that success has very little to do with education or race or disposition; it has more to do with principles and following those principles.

The Bible is really not a religious book but a divine manual written by the manufacturer of humanity by which the product man is supposed to live. If we learn those principles and obey them, then we find that the process of failure to success becomes more inevitability than experiment.