Principles Quotes

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by… — Marcus Aurelius
We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest — Thabo Mbeki
An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique -… — Paul Cezanne
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in… — Horace Bushnell
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by… — Arnold Bennett
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows… — Marquis de Sade
Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. — Stephen Covey
One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work,… — Edward Abbey
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of… — Edmund Burke
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence… — Mercy Otis Warren
Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on principles that will… — Mercy Otis Warren
Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early inculcated on the… — Samuel Adams
But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are… — Thomas Jefferson
The principles on which we engaged, of which the charter of our independence is the record, were sanctioned by the laws of our being, and… — Thomas Jefferson
It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is… — Thomas Jefferson
When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions of… — Thomas Jefferson
Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion. — Thomas Jefferson
Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings… — Thomas Jefferson
The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into… — Thomas Jefferson
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor… — Thomas Jefferson
The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution.… On natural principles, a treaty, which should… — Alexander Hamilton
There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is… — Alexander Hamilton
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the… — Alexander Hamilton
The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of… — Alexander Hamilton
Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs — Alexander Hamilton

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