You must place interest in principle above interest on…

Place principle above all else.

— Haile Selassie

With eternal investments there is never a loss of principle or principal.

— David Jeremiah

“Policy may involve politics but, principle is principal.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to the finding…

— Theodor Schwann

Money is created through bank debt. When you go for a mortgage through a bank, they give you $100,000 to buy a house and…

— Bernard Lietaer

It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers…

— Alexander Hamilton

Subjectivism is not an absolute principle; it is a necessary but not sufficient condition for sound methodology.

— Murray Rothbard

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

— B. F. Skinner

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

— Erica Jong

To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

The eternal principle, which never was born, never will die: it is in all things: it is in you now. You are the wave…

— Joseph Campbell

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

— Ellen Glasgow