Principle Quotes

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Ultimately, the law will collapse under its own weight. Until then, we have to start building a better health care system in its place. And… — Paul Ryan
The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love. — Jack Kornfield
IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle. — Joseph Lancaster
To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the feet of any wise man:… — Joe Biden
What are we going to get out of life? This can understandably be a question of fundamental importance to us. We begin with certain basic… — John Templeton
Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light… — George Santayana
The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles… — William Howard Taft
Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease. — Orrin Woodward
Move forward and let others do the same. Simple. This is a guiding principle everyone should have. — Pope Francis
And that law of the land which is constitutional, supporting that principle of freedom in maintaining rights and privileges, belongs to all mankind, and is… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The fact that the same proportionalities rule optimal running, flying and swimming is not a coincidence rather it is an illustration of the fact that… — Adrian Bejan
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in. — Alan Cooper
Social Security is inherently unsound for the simple reason that it's a political program run by politicians for political purposes...Social Security operates on a very… — Harry Browne
Legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The… — Eric Sevareid
A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government. — Alexander Hamilton
The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail. — George Washington
Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself is levelled against… — James Madison
Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of… — Woodrow Wilson
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. — John Stuart Mill
By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but… — William Penn
The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the… — Thomas Jefferson
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. — Kenneth Lee Pike
The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions. — Albert Camus
Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . . — Karl Popper

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