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This mode of electioneering suited neither my taste nor my principles. I thought it equally unsuitable to my personal character and to the station in… — John Quincy Adams
A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of… — Thomas Paine
In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to… — James Madison
The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles. — Thomas Jefferson
Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been,… — Harry S. Truman
The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder… — Lord Acton
Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are… — John Polkinghorne
The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are… — Phillip E. Johnson
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of… — Octavio Paz
But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed. — Albert Einstein
The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules. — Hosokawa Tadaoki
It is the law of our humanity that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much evil. No man… — Frederick William Robertson
While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can untie in a common objective and… — Franklin Pierce
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. — George Washington
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions,… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
A government must govern, must prescribe and enforce laws within its sphere or cease to be a government. Moreover, the individual must be independent and… — Calvin Coolidge
It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who… — Tom DeLay
For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that… — Barack Obama
Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and… — Barack Obama
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate… — Socrates

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