Principles Quotes

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Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone. — Thomas Jefferson
It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break… — Thomas Jefferson
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former… — Thomas Jefferson
It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to… — Thomas Jefferson
Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and… — Thomas Jefferson
This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and… — Rabindranath Tagore
Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you… — John McCain
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are… — Aristotle
Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here we are, we… — Richard Dawkins
I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be or not to… — Rajneesh
And I'm not a student of religion, but I don't find anything in what the principal teachings of Islam that put us in contradiction at… — George H. W. Bush
Fasting is the first principle of medicine. — Rumi
It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still… — Alexander Hamilton
Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers… — John Quincy Adams
Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with… — William Hazlitt
"Sense of justice is oÂne of the most wonderful ideals of Islam, because as I read in the Qur'an I find those dynamic principles of… — Sarojini Naidu
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show… — Alexis de Tocqueville
I do not think a philosopher who would apply himself so earnestly to the explaining the ultimate principles of the soul, would show himself a… — David Hume
One of the great underlying principles governing our life is service. Most of us have to work, but do we serve? Do we work in… — Henry Thomas Hamblin
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of… — Adolphe Quetelet

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