Principles Quotes

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A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends. — James Monroe
Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility… — Tom Coburn
My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But… — Richard Rohr
What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded — Claude Adrien Helvetius
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world.In a world… — Norman Bethune
Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected… — William Hazlitt
It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied… — Fulton J. Sheen
No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being. — Daniel Berrigan
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end… — Edith Stein
Because we aren't certain about the effects ofÂ GMOs, we must consider one of the guiding principles in science, the precautionary principle. Under this principle,… — David Suzuki
The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business,Â it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve… — Tim O'Reilly
There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is… — Leonard Susskind
As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented… — Albert J. Nock
Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says to… — Frank Chodorov
Donâ€™t judge yourself by othersâ€™ standardsâ€¦have your own. And donâ€™t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world… — Berry Gordy
The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of… — Voltairine de Cleyre
If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government; for the nature of government… — Voltairine de Cleyre
Our modern world defined God as a â€˜religious complexâ€™ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering… — Cecil B. DeMille
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to… — Ronald Fisher
Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary… — Thomas Frank

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