Principles Quotes

The American people don't need to just hear about the importance of the Constitution or the Bible. They have to understand that those principles are in their best interests.

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles.

Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.

I'm different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I'm thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They're not different.

As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering hisfellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.

I have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done.

A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.

It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.

"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"

If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.

Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.

The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will.

Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.

It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.

As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.

There should be a balance between material and spiritual progress, a balance achieved through the principles based on love and compassion.

Give more than you receive. That is the principle I tell all my students.

Principle is a passion for truth.

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

I have never opened with the QP - on principle.

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

With eternal investments there is never a loss of principle or principal.

Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything.

Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.

Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.

Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths?

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.

I'm not an expert on Islam, but I think there are lots of noble religions whose basic principles could stand considerably more observation in the world of business.