Principle Quotes

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When the Lord is your confidence you will never find yourself at all deceived by the ways and speech of men and women, though they… — Emma Curtis Hopkins
All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality. — Blaise Pascal
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered… — Wendell Phillips
I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those… — Hideki Tojo
Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to say, but this… — Maria Montessori
The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of… — Walter E. Williams
I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words, I believe that… — Christopher Langan
So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when… — Chris Patten
Place principle above all else. — Haile Selassie
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right. — Theodore Hesburgh
The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be… — Zig Ziglar
When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner. — Zig Ziglar
There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. — Trip Hawkins
An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet... this is… — Louis Sullivan
What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded — Claude Adrien Helvetius
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world.In a world… — Norman Bethune
Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected… — William Hazlitt
It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied… — Fulton J. Sheen
No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being. — Daniel Berrigan
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end… — Edith Stein
Because we aren't certain about the effects of GMOs, we must consider one of the guiding principles in science, the precautionary principle. Under this principle, if… — David Suzuki
There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is… — Leonard Susskind
As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented… — Albert J. Nock
Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says to… — Frank Chodorov
Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary… — Thomas Frank

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