Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest

Quote by Abraham Lincoln

Topics: Principles Quotes

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each...

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each...

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his arent very new...

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his arent very new...

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is...

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is...

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor,...

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor,...

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the...

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the...

Dont interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the...

Dont interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the...

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I...

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I...

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I...

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I...

Determine the thing that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the...

Determine the thing that can and shall be done, and then we shall find the...

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end......

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end......

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few...

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few...

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness....

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness....

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.