Principles Quotes

I teach them correct principles and they govern themselves.

Principles are the territory. Values are maps.

All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles.

There is an infinity of political errors which, being once adopted, become principles.

Men and times change-but principles-never.

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

Wait. You've got principles? We'll have to update your file.

The principles that apply to engagement for employees are the same as those that apply to supervisors.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.

As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

I have made it a principle to give advice that does not serve my personal interest but rather the common interests.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world.

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.

Tektology was the first attempt in the history of science to arrive at a systematic formulation of the principles of organization operating in living and nonliving systems.

The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

I believe that free-market principles will solve our healthcare problems.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

Every principle has a promise.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.

The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.

Before anything can be reasoned upon to a conclusion, certain facts, principles, or data, to reason from, must be established, admitted, or denied.

Factions among yourselves; preferring such To offices and honors, as ne'er read The elements of saving policy; But deeply skilled in all the principles That usher to destruction.

It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We are able to preserve our self-government if we will but think so.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good.

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

I'd rather be broke and have a whole lot of respect. It's the principle of it.

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 of wealth against the ascendency of the people.

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government

Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.

No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.

I think that water is a tremendous organizing principle.

The central task of our time is to evolve a new system of world order based on principles of peace and justice.

I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

A cardinal principle of the gospel is to prepare for the day of scarcity. Work, industry, frugality are part of the royal order of life.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.