principle Quotes

“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”

“We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge.”

“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”

“Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.”

“Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.”

“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.”