Principle Quotes

1947 Principle quotes by 1268 unique authors

We must each prepare ourselves for every good work that might come to us and then accept the principle that revelation, not aspiration, is the… — Monte J. Brough
It seems strange that the Mother of the race should be made the Slave of the Fruits of her Womb. It appears peculiar that she… — Hilton Hotema
Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy… — Wendell Berry
Whether our feet are compressed in iron shoes, our faces hidden with veils and masks; whether yoked with cows to draw the plow through its… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as… — Thomas Paine
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot… — Eric Hoffer
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by… — Marcus Aurelius
We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest — Thabo Mbeki
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique -… — Paul Cezanne
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in… — Horace Bushnell
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows… — Marquis de Sade
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of… — Edmund Burke
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are… — Thomas Jefferson
It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is… — Thomas Jefferson
Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion. — Thomas Jefferson
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the… — Alexander Hamilton
Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs — Alexander Hamilton
Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to… — Alexander Hamilton
The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice. — Thomas Paine
I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any… — Thomas Paine
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Arthur C. Clarke
The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a… — John Marshall
I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to… — James Madison
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone. — John Quincy Adams

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