Principles Quotes

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I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in… — Abraham Lincoln
I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest. — James Russell Lowell
Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies. — Woodrow Wilson
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last… — Samuel Johnson
The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the… — Calvin Coolidge
Strong words are required for weak principles. — Douglas Horton
I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice. — Mason Cooley
...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity. — Thomas Paine
All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to… — Joseph Campbell
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object… — Matthew Simpson
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy. — Felix Frankfurter
The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction… — William Godwin
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought. — Walter Pater
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those… — Primo Levi
I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle. — Jane Wagner
A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members, rather than to leave free the… — Walter Bagehot
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction. — Karel Capek
We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because… — Lewis Mumford
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force.… — Ursula K. Le Guin

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