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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, "Resistance to Civil Government"
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, inaugural address, Jan. 20, 1953
It is, methinks, worthy the curiosity of a nice observer of human nature, to watch the course of a principle in the mind, and mark its various effects; now cherishing a virtue, now a vice; now establishing order, and now inclining to irregularity: to trace it like a stream from a source, through all its windings; each of which, those who see but a part, distinguish by a different name, and suppose to be fed by a different spring.
FULKE GREVILLE, Maxims, Characters and Reflections
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