Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental…

Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied…

— Henry Grady Weaver

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

— William Weld

“fundamental principle of management: what gets measured gets done.”

— Anonymous

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

— Lakhdar Brahimi

Another fundamental principle taught by the Law of Moses is this: Wrong cannot be ascribed to God in any way whatever; all evils and…

— Maimonides

The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.

— Richard P. Feynman

Thanks to former President George W. Bush - remember the compassionate conservative? - I have a good name for the fundamental principle that should…

— Christina Romer

The most fundamental principle of the law is that it must apply equally to everyone.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and…

— Ayn Rand

America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.

— Ayn Rand

Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value…

— Erving Goffman

Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do.…

— Calvin Coolidge

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

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