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- The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early…
- I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has…
- We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent…
- I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect…
- [T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established .…
- The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.
- "It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the…
- I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in…
- Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are…
- SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have…
- The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government
- When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its…
- The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they…
- The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the…
- I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest…
- The First Amendment has created a wall of separation between the church and the State. But that wall is one directional. It is to keep…
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- 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
- The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award. — Javier Bardem
- I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have… — Drew Barrymore
- 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
- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams