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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Rules matter, and to be rules they need to be universal in form: always do this, never do that. But it is foolish to rule out in advance the possibility that an occasion might arise when normal rules just don't apply. Rules are not there to be broken, but sometimes break them we must.

It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.

Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept the world they live in and there are people who change the world they live in. I don't accept my circumstances.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.

Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.