Principles
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- A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.
- A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
- A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made it vast. Despise not thou small things, either for evil or for good; for a look may work thy ruin, or a word create thy wealth.
- Be sure you can obey good laws before you seek to alter bad ones.
- Be true to your own highest convictions.
- Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.
- Conscience is your magnetic needle; reason is your chart.
- Do what is right the best way you can, and wait to the end to know.
- Duty is a power that rises with us in the morning, and goes to rest with us at night. It is co-extensive with the action of our intelligence. It is the shadow that cleaves to us, go where we will.
- Expedients are for the hour; principles for the ages.
- For better or worse, what you allow will continue.
- Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.
- Good order is the foundation of all good things.
- He who knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.
- Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen.
- I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
- I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.
- Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.
- If your highest value is loyalty, you run the risk of compromising your integrity. Allegiance to people matters. Allegiance to principles matters more.
- In all things reason should prevail; it is quite another thing to be stiff, than steady in an opinion.
- In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- In short, in life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard!
- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
- Integrity is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line, and will hold out and last longest.
- It’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
- Just stick to your principles. And rest assured that, if you remain true to them, the same people who made fun of you will come to admire you.
- Justice delayed is justice denied.
- Justice without power is inefficient; power without justice is tyranny.
- Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.
- Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
- Many men do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.
- Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.
- Nature, to be controlled, must be obeyed.
- No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
- No moral end can be obtained by demoralizing means.
- One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
- Order is heaven's first law.
- Principle is a passion for truth and right.