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My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave the consequences to Him who has the disposal of them
Thomas Jefferson
One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party
Nikita Khrushchev
Our principles are founded on the immovable basis of equal right and reason.
Thomas Jefferson
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil
Albert Schweitzer
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.
Thomas Jefferson
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten
Mark Twain
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion
Edmund Burke
The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.
Aristotle
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 cannot love us.
Thomas Jefferson
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Groucho Marx
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else's list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.
Richard Bach
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
Mark Twain
When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck
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