Principles Quotes

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The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure. — Douglas Wood
The principles are clear and explicit. The free market is fine for the third world and its growing counterpart at home. Mothers with dependent children… — Avram Noam Chomsky
If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to… — Thomas Jefferson
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life — Francis Bacon Sr
Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself,… — John McCain
Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight! — Kenneth Clarke
Existing rules and principles can give us our present location, our bearings, our latitude and longitude. The inn that shelters for the night is not… — Benjamin Cardozo
We're in a fight for our principles and our first responsibility is to live by them. — George W. Bush
Mathematicians, who are only mathematicians, have exact minds, provided all things are explained to them by means of definitions and axioms; otherwise they are inaccurate… — Blaise Pascal
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Men have laid down the rules and definitions by which the world is run, and one of the objects of their definitions is woman — Sally Kempton
There is no arguing with one who denies first principles — Latin Proverb
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration.… — William Ellery Channing
It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. — Adlai E. Stevenson
To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave the consequences to Him who has the disposal of them — Thomas Jefferson
The principles and modes of governments are too important to be disregarded by an inquisitive mind and I think are well worthy a critical examination… — James Madison
Expedients are for the hour; principles for the ages — Henry Ward Beecher
Our principles are founded on the immovable basis of equal right and reason. — Thomas Jefferson
Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem… — George Bernard Shaw

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