Great Principle Quotes
16 quotes by 12 authors
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It is the law of our humanity that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much evil. No man…
— Frederick William Robertson
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No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
— Henry F. Ashurst
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I think [forgiveness] may be the greatest virtue on earth, and certainly the most needed. There is so much of meanness and abuse, of intolerance…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a free State upon…
— Stephen A. Douglas
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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
— Albert Pike
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The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or…
— Augusto Roa Bastos
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Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to say, but this…
— Maria Montessori
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The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of…
— Walter E. Williams
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God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He…
— Giacomo Casanova
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They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to…
— Robert Toombs
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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
— Charles Dickens
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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through…
— Charles Dickens
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I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say,…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable.
— Albert Pike
Who Wrote These Great Principle Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 16 Great Principle Quotes as follows: