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Principles Quotes by Mark Twain
- When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was…
- We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
- There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate…
- The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten
- I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given…
- Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
- A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will…
- The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace,…
- Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
- Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
- Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
- But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been…
More Principles Quotes
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson
- Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter… — Frederick Lenz
- Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
- In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear. — Kofi Annan
- the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we… — Thomas Jefferson
- Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to… — Arthur W. Pink