Principles Quotes

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The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality. — George Washington
The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption… — Alexander Hamilton
Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect of our True… — Guy Finley
You may be good, but what are you good for? You've got to be good for something. You've got to be about some project, some… — Stephen Covey
To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be nourished unless people… — Stephen Covey
They used Akbar's principles to formulate a version of Islam that could peacefully co-exist with other religions (or so they claimed). An Emperor's Bequest to… — Manil Suri
We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to… — Bryant H. McGill
I am dubious as to how far we can move toward global community-which is the only way to achieve international peace-until we learn the basic… — M. Scott Peck
BASICS OF DIET AND HEALTH The basic principles of good diets are so simple that I can summarize them in just ten words: eat less,… — Marion Nestle
An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should… — Orson Pratt
I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy. — Johann Heinrich Lambert
The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of… — H. L. Mencken
Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Anything can happen in SF. And the fact that nothing ever does happen in SF is only due to the poverty of our imaginations, we… — John Thomas Sladek
What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is bad? All that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature. — Alexander Hamilton
So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have… — Peter L. Berger
We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of… — Winston Churchill
The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese… — Winston Churchill
In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know… — Learned Hand
Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the… — George Bernard Shaw
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;… — Samuel Johnson
Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion. — Marcel Breuer

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