Principles Quotes - Page 66

If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable.

The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal understanding of economic principles.

The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.

Mr. Dalton's permanent reputation will rest upon his having discovered a simple principle, universally applicable to the facts of chemistry - in fixing the proportions in which bodies combine, and thus laying the foundation for future labors... his merits in this respect resemble those of Kepler in astronomy.

Power lacks moral or principles. It only has interests.

I have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. I have always fought for the same values and principles.

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

Occasionally one speaks... of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and hence concerns the very principle of causal order.

Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil because it will produce a greater good.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

I am comfortable that the principles that I articulated were never compromised.

The United States is a Christian nation founded upon Christian principles and beliefs.

Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle.

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.