principles Quotes

What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

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.

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.