Principles Quotes · Page 93

Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations…may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.

— Roger Cotes

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles…

— Jonah Goldberg

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty,…

— Thomas Jefferson

In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.

— Irvine Welsh

[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

— Jeremy Bentham

“When in doubt, do what they do in books, was one of Gabriel's secret mottos and - that rarest of things -…

— Jean-Christophe Valtat

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

— Noah Webster

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

— Peter Singer

The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the…

— Louis Mackey

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known…

— James Otis

What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to…

— Bernard Bailyn

The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows…

— William Warburton

It has to be simple, but then you deliver them a principle: The simple truth is, as a matter of principle, we…

— Frank Luntz

The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless…

— Margaret Thatcher

As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation…

— Richard Whately

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no…

— Edward Teller

Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I’m not going askew from the principles on which the United States was built; I’m right there with our founding fathers. I’m…

— Phil Robertson

The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have spent forty-five years teasing out the universal principles of success that are necessary to create massive breakthroughs. I am committed…

— Jack Canfield

All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion…

— Robert Mayer

Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Fundamentally, however, there is neither good nor evil; this is all based on human concepts. In the universe there exists neither good…

— Franz Bardon

I am comfortable that the principles that I articulated were never compromised.

— George W. Bush

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than…

— James Madison

In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existence, principle has existence, the Way has existence, spirit is nothingness.

— Miyamoto Musashi

“We’ll discuss six principles here: proximity, similarity, enclosure, closure, continuity, and connection.”

— Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his…

— Sinclair Lewis

Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that…

— Jacques Hadamard

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

— Edmund Burke

“Think what you wish, but always ask yourself if you’re basing your principles on real facts,”

— Joseph Befumo

For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.

— Erich Fromm

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives…

— Ron Paul

Voters never have to question where I stand - my principles or priorities. I am a pro-freedom, pro-America and pro-life conservative.

— Tim Walberg

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

— Emanuel Lasker

How often have we seen politicians take a principle position only to give it up three days later? That is what makes…

— Colin Powell

“Anything which is morally wrong cannot be religiously, socially or politically right.”

— Amit Kalantri

Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.

— Mao Zedong

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

— Murray Bookchin