Principle Quotes

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand.

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.

Championing liberty begins at the local level. There is nothing more fundamental than the principle that a man's home is his castle. Donald Trump's career-long willingness to trample this right tells you everything you need to know about his bogus tea party sideshow.

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

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.

There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.

The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.