Principles Quotes

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Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — Alexander Pope
A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh… — Aldous Huxley
Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the… — Abraham Lincoln
Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects… — Abraham Lincoln
Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education. — Benjamin Rush
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of… — James Madison
[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity — Franklin D. Roosevelt
If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly… — Albert Einstein
We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the… — Thomas Jefferson
[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his… — Thomas Jefferson
That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such… — James Madison
Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit. — Woodrow Wilson
There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into… — Winston Churchill
General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not… — William Hazlitt
Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion… — Aristotle
It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications… — Noah Webster
Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions. — Bertrand Russell
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. — Woodrow Wilson
There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be… — Abraham Lincoln

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