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Principles Quotes by Lysander Spooner
- There has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the power and duty…
- 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…
- The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men,…
- The strong are always free by virtue of their superior strength. So long as government is a mere contest as to which of two parties…
- The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support,…
- No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it…
- The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured.…
- If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a…
- Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as…
- Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple…
More Principles Quotes
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen
- While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they… — Teresa of Avila
- A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too… — Sai Baba
- That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it,… — Charles Babbage
- The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet
- Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore de Balzac