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"Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative." »Karl Popper
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"The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military." »William Orville Douglas
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""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
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"The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men." »John Randolph
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"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life." »Albert Camus
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"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle." »Confucius
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"A precedent embalms a principle." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies." »Arthur Calwell
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"We talk on principle, but we act on interest." »Walter Savage Landor
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"Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want." »Joseph Wood Krutch
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"Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not." »Henry Fielding
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"I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility." »Everett Dirksen
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"The time has come for all good men to rise above principle." »Huey Long
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"As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything." »George Carlin
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"Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency." »James Webb
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"Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act." »Claude A. Helvetius
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"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." »Immanuel Kant
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"Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle." »Epictetus
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"Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principle one was that they escaped teething." »Mark Twain
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"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." »George Eliot
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"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated." »William James
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"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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"Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality." »Albert Schweitzer
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"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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"I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple." »Albert Einstein
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"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice." »George Eliot
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"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
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"Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep." »Mark Beltaire
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"The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power." »Dennis Kucinich
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