1,227 Quotes About Principles

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that someone holds.

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are easily confounded. The Vital Principle is an entity of this ghostly kind; and although the daylight has dissipated it, and positive Biology is no longer vexed with its visitations, it nevertheless reappears in another shape in the shadowy region of mystery which surrounds biological and all other questions.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

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.