Principle Quotes

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs and to improve their delivery of the policy and their delivery of the ideas so that they can garner support for whatever principle they're articulating.

Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle.

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.

The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points.

Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.