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Principles Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
- Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
- A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
- Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build…
- A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its…
- Expedients are for the hour; principles for the ages
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- I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen
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- Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore de Balzac
- The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award. — Javier Bardem
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- Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. — John Quincy Adams
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