If you just fight against everything willy-nilly, then the…

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

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

Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime. What children…

— Fredric Wertham