The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect… — Plato Copy Share Image
A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
An essential point in the social philosophy of interventionism is the existence of an inexhaustible fund which can be squeezed forever. The… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Why are some people highly principled and willing to do anything for their principles, while most of us are not? And I… — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals.… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
“Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of Napier ,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By today’s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The more the specific feelings of being under obligation range themselves under a supreme principle of human dependence the clearer and more… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
All combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Living on the street as a kid changed the way I looked at everything. It was a different time and while it… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The main implication is a remapping of the world in line with American policy and American interests. Natural resources are limited, and… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers deliberately used the Bible as their guide. They tried to ensure that schools, likewise, use the Bible to teach… — Richard S. Wheeler Copy Share Image
Israel has the mentality of a small Kibbutz. Kibbutz is kind of like a small village that - actually there aren't many… — Meital Dohan Copy Share Image
The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this… — Ronald Takaki Copy Share Image
Aikido is the principle of non-resistance. Because it is non-resistant, it is victorious from the beginning. Those with evil intentions or contentious… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction… — James Madison Copy Share Image
How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught,… — Olympia Brown Copy Share Image
The Trouble with liberals is twofold: They have a horrible blind spot with respect to moral principles and they have an abysmal… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Man, who preys both on the vegetable and animal species, is himself a prey to neither. He too possesses the reproductive principle… — James Madison Copy Share Image
My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“To be a person of principle is to accept the reality that their stance will never cease to draw the fire of… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be… — George Packer Copy Share Image
There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
I love America. I'm concerned about America and I believe the heart and soul of conservatives and Republicans recognize that the principles… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Experimental work provides the strongest evidence for scientific realism. This is not because we test hypotheses about entities. It is because entities… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he… — Mike Gayle Copy Share Image
In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
And now one of the greatest and most fundamental principles of the Cause of God is to shun and avoid entirely the… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image