Enduring Principles Quotes

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.

The policy of the United States does not flow from transitory considerations.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they are fit to survive. The guarantee of continuity is quality. Submerge the good in a flood of the new, and good will come back to join the good which the new brings with it. Old-fashioned hospitality, old-fashioned politeness, old-fashioned honor in business had qualities of survival. These will come back.

The hope of free people in a frightened world is the values which people put ahead of inventions when their backs are to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof.

Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

I believe at its core we have a Constitution, as our Supreme Court's first great justice, Marshall, said in 1819, and I quote, "intended to endure for the ages to come and consequently to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs."

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

Principles are eternal.

Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionately to their occupancy of your thoughts.

I don't have one polarizing message. It is just about being consistent over the years.

The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

Nothing but truth is immortal.

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

There are no new fundamentals. You've got to be a little suspicious of someone who says, "I've got a new fundamental." That's like someone inviting you to tour a factory where they are manufacturing antiques.

Write only of what is important and eternal.

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned