| "The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military." »William Orville Douglas |
| ""There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."" »Herbert Spencer |
| "The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place." »Claude T Bissell |
| "There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting." »Rudolf Karl Bultmann |
| "To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting." »David Letterman |
| "Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets." »Simone Weil |
| "To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle." »Confucius |
| "Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." »Joseph Wood Krutch |
| "A precedent embalms a principle." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies." »Arthur Calwell |
| "As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything." »George Carlin |
| "We talk on principle, but we act on interest." »Walter Savage Landor |
| "We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not." »Henry Fielding |
| "Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle." »Epictetus |
| "The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." »George Eliot |
| "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." »William James |
| "Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality." »Albert Schweitzer |
| "The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - from Live Without principle" »Henry David Thoreau |
| "So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." »Immanuel Kant |
| "I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection." »Charles Robert Darwin |
| "Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep." »Mark Beltaire |
| "When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice." »Otto von Bismark |
| "When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice." »Prince Otto |
| "There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'." »Sir William Joseph Slim |
| "There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - from Live Without principle" »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage." »H Hahn Blavatsky |
| "The Dilbert principle The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage--Management." »Scott Adams |
| "The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life." »Albert Pike |
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