Insights on Principles

Always vote for a principle, though you vote along, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost………John Quincy Adams

He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions – such a man is a mere article of the world’s furniture – a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being – an echo, not a voice…….Henry Frederic Amiel

Many people are liberal in principle, reluctant in practice……..John Burgess

He who merely knows the right principles, is not equal to him who loves them……..Confucius

Men of principle are always bold, but those who are bold are not always men of principle….Confucius

A precedent embalms a principle……….Benjamin Disraeli

We have always found that, if our principles are right, the area over which they applied did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table…….Henry Ford

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world….Immanuel Kant

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…….Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. Its the business of little minds to shrink, ut he whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death……Thomas Paine

In life it is possible merely to throw a heap of stones together, but this pile is not beautiful. We pyramid to the heights only when we lay stone on stone according to a beautiful plan. If we have no faith in the principles with which we build life, we are defeated……W.N.Thomas