| "The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military." »William Orville Douglas |
| "To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle." »Confucius |
| "A precedent embalms a principle." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." »Joseph Wood Krutch |
| "We talk on principle, but we act on interest." »Walter Savage Landor |
| "As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything." »George Carlin |
| "It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies." »Arthur Calwell |
| "Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle." »Epictetus |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection." »Charles Robert Darwin |
| "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 |
| "Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep." »Mark Beltaire |
| "The Dilbert principle The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage--Management." »Scott Adams |
| "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 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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "In matters of style, swim with the current in matters of principle, stand like a rock." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men." »Saint Augustine |
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