Principles Quotes

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History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing… — Ronald Reagan
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for… — Calvin Coolidge
By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but… — William Penn
In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality,… — Calvin Coolidge
The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the… — Thomas Jefferson
That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain… — James Madison
When you put ungodly people in office you put ungodly principles in office. God can't bless ungodly principles therefore God can't bless you for promoting… — David Barton
To their duty to God, youth should realize their duty to our country. They should love and honor the Constitution of the United States, the… — Ezra Taft Benson
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long history of suffering… — Robert Neelly Bellah
It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should be sent to… — George Washington
History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in… — Benjamin Franklin
Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions.… — Alexander Hamilton
When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. — Kenneth Lee Pike
The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions. — Albert Camus
Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . . — Karl Popper
A family is not built just by marrying a woman and producing children. Family is built with a timeless sacrifice which must represent purity, unity,… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Whenever you remember me, now or hereafter, one word you must remember: God only lives in cozy homes. Man without a cozy home is a… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time? — Stephen Covey
Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest of the biosphere.… — Richard Heinberg
Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol.… — Carl Jung

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