Principle Quotes

The principle on which this country was founded and by which it has always been governed is that Americanism is a matter of the mind and heart; Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry.

Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance… Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to principles. Intolerance applies only to principles, but never to persons.

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.

I am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional. All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice.