Our inheritance of well-founded slowly conceived codes of honor morals and manners the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
There is a point of course where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear principle; but until that time comes he must work if he would be of use with men as they are. As long as the good in them overbalances the evil let him work with them for the best that can be obtained.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Those are my principles. If you dont like them I have others.
Expedients are for the hour; principles for the ages.
Our inheritance of well-founded slowly conceived codes of honor morals and manners the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action choice resolved memory.
In matters of principle stand like a rock. In matters of taste swim with the current.
In matters of style swim with the current; In matters of principle stand like a rock.
Important principles may and must be inflexible.
The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
There is a point of course where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear principle; but until that time comes he must work if he would be of use with men as they are. As long as the good in them overbalances the evil let him work with them for the best that can be obtained.
It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.
Its important that people know what you stand for. Its equally important that they know what you wont stand for.