#Principles Quotes

“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.”

“Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party”

“Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.”

“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

“If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.”

“Nothing should be done for spite's sake.”

“We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.”

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

“I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.”

“Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.”

“There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.”

“Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.”

“Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.”

“It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilizationitself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.”

“But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.”

“This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.”

“You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.”

“Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.”

“Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.”

“If it's a principle, it's a winner. If it's a tactic, it's a loser.”

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

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

“Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.”

“But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.”

“There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.”

“A right is worth fighting for only when it can be put into operation.”

“Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.”

“One cannot pay the price of self-respect.”

“The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.”

“The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.”

“Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.”

“I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.”

“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”

“I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.”

“Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.”

“Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.”

“Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.”

“In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.”

“Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.”

“Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.”

“Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.”

“Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.”

“I choose to work with every single person that I work with. That ends up being the most important factor. I don't interact with people I don't like or admire. That's the key. It's like marrying.”

“If principles can become dated, they're not principles.”

“In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.”

“The principles of Nonviolent Communication taught by Dr. Rosenberg are instrumental in creating an extraordinary and fulfilling quality of life. His compassionate and inspiring message cuts right to the heart of successful communication.”

“I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to say the new approach is all wrong, bound to lead to trouble, and so on. On one point, however, I am clear. I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand ( although I find it difficult to apply ) even though it may mean foregoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully, and which possibly could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital.”

“At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.”

“We are now trusting to those who are against us in position and principle, to fashion to their own form the minds and affections of our youth... This canker is eating on the vitals of our existence, and if not arrested at once, will be beyond remedy.”

“I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.”