Defeated Quote by William Lloyd Garrison

The general principle is that the victors don't look at themselves or concede anything. The defeated typically have to, except when it's beneficial to…

— Noam Chomsky

“Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value. They’re fundamental.”

— Stephen R. Covey

I stick to my principles.

— Rory MacDonald

“Reality came first, and the principles and logic followed.”

— Haruki Murakami

The principles and passions of men are always the same and lead to the same result, varying only according to the circumstances in which…

— James Monroe

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

— Blaine Lee Pardoe

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

— Norm MacDonald

“It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

— Lucretia Mott

My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.

— Julius Evola

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

— William Hazlitt

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

— Umberto Eco