I have an ethics background. It doesn't mean you're perfect. But I tried to set an entirely different bar for politics in… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
The characteristic virtue of Englishmen is power of sustained practical activity and their characteristic vice a reluctance to test the quality of… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I chose the Republican Party because of the principles the party was founded on. This was the party of freedom. This was… — Ryan Frazier Copy Share Image
The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force… — Caroline Gordon Copy Share Image
There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are nearly all composed of such a complex mixture of human qualities that in each one of us reside both masculine… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
You need not fear me, for I not only should think it wrong to marry a man that was deficient in sense… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Deep down, everything boils down ("au fond tout se ramène", Fr.) to the following simple question; Do we really want justice and… — African Spir Copy Share Image
The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation's history — the very ring-bolt in the chain of your… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Prayer cannot truly be taught by principles and seminars and symposiums. It has to be born out of a whole environment of… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
For all its faults, it is partisanship - based on core principles- that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
When I said [ I would work with any organization] I would make the, the reservation that I would work with any… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The power of the state stops at our skins. They can't restrict contraception [or] abortion. They can't take our kidneys. Bodily integrity… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The law of the fast benefits both those who fast and those who stand in need. . . . In addition to… — Victor L. Brown Copy Share Image
Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
It was Steinitz who was the first to establish the basic principles of general chess strategy. He was a pioneer and one… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated… — Sallust Copy Share Image
If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the surprises to me was the willingness of many people in the conservative media to roll over, to abandon long-held… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is exciting to discover electrons and figure out the equations that govern their movement; it is boring to use those principles… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
![“When I said [ I would work with any organization] I would make the, the reservation that I would work with any organization as long as it didn't make us compromise our religious principles.” quote by Malcolm X](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f68/malcolm-x-213_compromise_when-i-said-i-would-work-with-any-organi_953482.jpg)
![“The power of the state stops at our skins. They can't restrict contraception [or] abortion. They can't take our kidneys. Bodily integrity is a principle.” quote by Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49f/gloria-steinem-277_abortion_the-power-of-the-state-stops-at-our-skin_304477.jpg)
![“But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle. [Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.]” quote by Sallust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fa/sallust-4191_all-things_but-assuredly-fortune-rules-in-all-thing_1962529.jpg)
![“[Barack Obama] believes climate change is a bigger threat to our country than these barbaric Islamic terrorists that have as their organizing principle the destruction of Western civilization.” quote by Jeb Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fae/jeb-bush-1082_barack_barack-obama-believes-climate-change-is_788500.png)
