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Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature. — Alexander Hamilton
So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have… — Peter L. Berger
We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of… — Winston Churchill
The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese… — Winston Churchill
In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know… — Learned Hand
Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the… — George Bernard Shaw
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;… — Samuel Johnson
Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion. — Marcel Breuer
Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students. — B.K.S. Iyengar
There is no other subject on which the average mind is so much confused as the subject of tolerance and intolerance... Tolerance applies only to… — Fulton J. Sheen
The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism. — Lajos Kossuth
Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are simply engaged in… — John F. Kennedy
Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to… — Walter Lippmann
It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and… — Michel de Montaigne
Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding. — Ambrose Bierce
I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given… — Mark Twain
Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season. — Mark Twain
A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will… — Mark Twain

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