And now one of the greatest and most fundamental…

Bahá'í marriage is union and cordial affection between the two parties. They must, however, exercise the utmost care and become acquainted with each other's…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil…

— James Madison

Let each of us accept the truth of the following statement and try to make it our most fundamental principle: Christ's teaching will never…

— Vincent de Paul

What is the structure of government that will best guard against the precipitate counsels and factious combinations for unjust purposes, without a sacrifice of…

— James Madison

Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.

— Pope Pius XI

It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body. The first…

— Alexander Hamilton

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

— Joseph Smith, Jr

The old fundamental principles must continue to apply, even in our changing society: Democracy knows neither master nor slave. Equal education opportunities for all,…

— Martin Schulz

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of…

— David Hilbert

There is a fundamental principle. People have the right to defend their country from foreign occupiers, and people have the right to defend their…

— Norman Finkelstein

In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.'…

— George Orwell

Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second,…

— Allen W. Wood

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

— Umberto Eco

The fundamental principle [of settlement work] remains: that people shall take up their residence in industrial communities, giving what they may have of public…

— Lillian Wald