I Need A Quote About Principles

[TastyWheat]

There isn't much time left before the election but I wanted to make a flier to give to neighbors and co-workers. It may not change their vote, but I'm hoping it will give them a different perspective on events as they occur.

I'm starting out with this quote, "Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases," by Hippocrates (i.e. desperate times call for desperate measures). Then I want to go over a brief history of overthrown democracies, how they willingly let themselves be overtaken out of fear and ignorance.

I want to finish the flier with a counter-quote though. Something that says stick by your principles no matter what happens. Any ideas?

[silverhawks]

Try these on for size.

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged."
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

And a couple from my country of origin:

"The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition."
~ John Acton

And the Iron Lady herself:

"To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects."
~ Margaret Thatcher

[RockEnds]

Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve. Benjamin Franklin

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. Thomas Paine

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily. George Washington

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On matters of style, swim with the current,
on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

--Thomas Jefferson

[TastyWheat]

Some of these are more despotic in nature, you'll see where I'm going with this (favorites in bold):

"Fear can only prevail when the victims are ignorant of the facts." Thomas Jefferson

"Modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed, yet not a free man but an automation." Eric Fromm

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." Winston Churchill

"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." Justice William O. Douglas

"A government above the law is a menace to be defeated." Lord Scarman

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American Public." Former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt

"Civil disobedience. . . is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem." Howard Zinn

“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" -- Patrick Henry

"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government." -- Henry Kissinger speaking at Evian, France, May 21, 1992 Bilderburgers meeting

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." -- David Rockefeller

"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think." -- Adolph Hitler

"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it."
--Judge Learned Hand

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."
-- James Madison

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution"
-- Abraham Lincoln

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I recognize no moral law in politics. Politics is a game, in which
every sort of trick is permissible, and in which the rules are
constantly being changed by the players to suit themselves.

--Adolf Hitler

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The citizen is influenced by principle in direct proportion to his distance from the political situation.

--Milton Rakove

[cheapseats]

There isn't much time left before the election but I wanted to make a flier to give to neighbors and co-workers. It may not change their vote, but I'm hoping it will give them a different perspective on events as they occur.

I'm starting out with this quote, "Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases," by Hippocrates (i.e. desperate times call for desperate measures). Then I want to go over a brief history of overthrown democracies, how they willingly let themselves be overtaken out of fear and ignorance.

I want to finish the flier with a counter-quote though. Something that says stick by your principles no matter what happens. Any ideas?

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

--Alfred Adler


Every principle is a war-note. Whoever attempts to carry out the rule of right and love and freedom must take his life in his own hand.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson


Stick by your principles, no matter what.

--TastyWheat

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There is also this...

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

--Henry Kissinger

[RonPaulVolunteer]

Hmm... ok.

Be principled. - RonPaulVolunteer 2008

How's that?

:D

[JenH88]

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. ~John Quincy Adams

My favorite, and the one I always stick to whenever I'm criticized for "throwing my vote away".

[Scribbler de Stebbing]

^^^^

I was going to give that one, and still will:

John Quincy Adams: Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

[hillbilly123069]

Do unto others as you would have them do to you,and if that doesn't work, Give what you get!

[Truth Warrior]

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/principle

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/principle.html

[TastyWheat]

What do we think is the biggest danger to our liberties in the next few years? Socialism? Despotism? Globalism?

[Truth Warrior]

What do we think is the biggest danger to our liberties in the next few years? Socialism? Despotism? Globalism? Voting.<IMHO> ;)

[TastyWheat]

Voting.<IMHO> ;)
Tru Dat.

[glts]

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
John Quincy Adams