Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication… — Margaret Chase Smith Copy Share Image
The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the television business, I don't think anyone will let you go in and pitch a show unless you use the words… — Jackie Schaffer Copy Share Image
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think I'll stick to what I'm used to, my principles, and that is team Number 1 and individual Number 2. — Yao Ming Copy Share Image
I knew that if we were going to actually defeat Harry Reid, we had to have a candidate who would offer a… — Sharron Angle Copy Share Image
We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support. — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Consider: what could be more American than the principle that every person is to be held accountable for his or her crimes… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society. — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
What I've called "the Mafia doctrine" in many publications: when the Godfather issues an edict, others must obey, or else. It's too… — Noam Chomsky 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
Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
I really do believe that the basic principle that Americans have the right to know what they're buying when they buy it… — Peter Shumlin Copy Share Image
It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story. — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
I thought if I could do stand-up comedy well enough, I could parlay it back into films - like Charlie Chaplin and… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that the principles behind Contraction & Convergence provide the best long-term framework for a fair and equitable climate change… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I highly venerate the Masonic Institution, under the fullest persuasion that, when its principles are acknowledged and its laws and precepts obeyed,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If the popular thing to do is to say you have to ban flag burning, even if it ultimately means we're compromising… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
Disability is a characteristic like hair color; it's not a defining principle. — Jean Driscoll Copy Share Image
“But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Though people could, in principle, cross national borders to reach places where their work is more highly rewarded, they are in fact… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy - nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
“It is only when we meet the needs of the people around us that God meets our needs” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
To me nonviolence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people. Therefore I am devoting all… — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Copy Share Image
We have to stand for our principles, stand for our allies, stand for a strong military and stand for a stronger economy. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image