| "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 |
| "Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute." »Cicero |
| "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 |
| "Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not." »Henry Fielding |
| "We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle." »Epictetus |
| "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 strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." »George Eliot |
| "So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." »Immanuel Kant |
| "The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. - from Live Without principle" »Henry David Thoreau |
| "I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection." »Charles Robert Darwin |
| "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 |
| "Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep." »Mark Beltaire |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles." »Scott Adams |
| "Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without principle" »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
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