Principles Quotes · Page 47

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and…

— Abraham Lincoln

What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed…

— William Hazlitt

In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.

— Mason Cooley

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

— Groucho Marx

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it…

— Edward Everett

Ronald Reagan's era can be defined, number one in most people's minds, by the Cold War and by the end of it…

— Marco Rubio

I've come up through the ranks of this parliamentary party and let me tell you the principles that have guided me on…

— Brian Cowen

When it becomes a part of every man's thinking that a single thought can change the polarity of our entire body toward…

— Walter Russell

This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles…

— Marc Forne Molne

Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are…

— Edmund Burke

I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.

— Alexander Hamilton

A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.

— Anonymous

As for money and prestige, if one has an opportunity to make money and/or advance their position or place in life, there…

— Axl Rose

There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.

— Eyvind Kang

[On the propulsive force of rockets] One part of fire takes up as much space as ten parts of air, and one…

— Vannoccio Biringuccio

“So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in…

— John Kennedy Toole

For as long as I can remember, I have been inspired by the achievement of our founding fathers. They set forth principles…

— Sonia Sotomayor

A true principle makes decisions clear even under the most confusing and challenging circumstances.

— Richard G. Scott

“Service to God is largely unacceptable without service to men”

— Sunday Adelaja

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle - the ability to see the world as it really…

— Jack Welch

Manipulation of human mind starts with dogmas.

— Peter Marley

[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution]…

— Thomas Jefferson

When Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in 1990, I felt America's post-Cold War commitment to national principles and international leadership was…

— Joe Lieberman

Government has no right to make itself a party in any debates respecting the principles or mode of forming or of changing,…

— Thomas Paine