Bureaucracy Quote by John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

“With some justice, I think, I could claim that it is all right as a beginning to leave a principle in a somewhat fuzzy…

— Robert Nozick

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.

— William Bernbach

It's not a principle unless it costs you something.

— Tobias Lutke

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

— Dick Cheney

“If principle is only defended when there’s nothing at stake, then it is probably not much of a principle after all.”

— Jeff Flake

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

— Benjamin Franklin

Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.

— Laura Schlessinger

For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.

— George Washington

When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.

— Wayne LaPierre

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States (which principle…

— Thomas Jefferson