Principles Quotes

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Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger. — Plato
Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again… — Thomas Jefferson
I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt;… — Thomas Jefferson
He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan. — William Hazlitt
There is the work of great men and there is the work of little men. Therefore it is said, 'Some labor with their minds and… — Mencius
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while… — Max Lerner
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation. — Max Lerner
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function,… — Gilbert Adair
Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles. — Stewart Udall
Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself. — Unknown Author
I've distilled everything to one simple principle: win or die! — Glenn Close
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not… — Lincoln Steffens
To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world — Jim Holt
Religion operates on the principle 'I obey-therefore I am accepted by God.' But the operating principle of the gospel is 'I am accepted by God… — Timothy Keller
The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles. — E L Doctorow
Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists ... — Albert Einstein
Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest. — Abraham Lincoln

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