Principles Quotes

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Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have… — Jean-Paul Marat
As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles. . . . The best of all leaders is the man… — Robert Green Ingersoll
No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle. — Henry F. Ashurst
Efficiency in an assembly requires a solid mass of steady votes; and these are collected by a deferential attachment to particular men, or by a… — Walter Bagehot
We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're… — Richard J. Daley
It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of decorum and in… — Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul
There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic principle is the… — Anselm J. McLaurin
No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the… — Frederick Scott Oliver
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of… — Wendell Phillips
For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of… — Mo Udall
Man must begin to the unitary principle of man - knowing that there are not separate men or separate individuals, but hat the whole man… — Walter Russell
If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle of unity — John Nelson Darby
Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first… — Anatole France
When people lack teachers, their tendencies are not corrected; when they do not have ritual and moral principles, then their lawlessness is not controlled. — Xunzi
If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a… — Lysander Spooner
If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my team, my environment… — Luke Scott
Every part of our program of perestroika - and the program as a whole, for that matter - is fully based on the principle of… — Mikhail Gorbachev
The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has… — Plato
So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises… — Plato

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