I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
The truth is that the D.C. Circuit is an admirably nonideological court that applies principles of administrative law evenhandedly. — Eugene Scalia Copy Share Image
Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
I've been pretty broke my entire life. I'm not going to live that same life, but I'm going to keep those same… — Draymond Green Copy Share Image
...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that. — William James Copy Share Image
The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Neither the George W. Bush nor the Obama administrations volunteered to bail out G.M., Chrysler and other parts of the auto sector.… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
We can never have too much preparation and training. We must be a strong competitor. We must adhere staunchly to the basic… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Gratitude is a SpiritEUR'filled principle. It opens our minds to a universe permeated with the richness of a living God. Through it,… — Bonnie D. Parkin Copy Share Image
Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The Europeans are all deeply tainted with prejudices, both ecclesiastical and temporal, which they can never get rid of. They are all… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles. — William Kristol Copy Share Image
The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The specific media may change, but the principles of human nature have remained fairly constant over the millenia. — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I guess the underlying principle might be, don't make it too easy for them to stereotype you. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Bread for me is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.” — Nicholas Berdyaev Copy Share Image
Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education. — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief… — Judith Guest Copy Share Image
Relationship Principle 11 It is better to be disliked for being who you are than to be loved for who you are not. — Sherry Argov Copy Share Image
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering. — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles… — Benjamin Todd Jealous Copy Share Image
