Principles Quotes

Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.

~ Allen Weinstein

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

~ Noah Webster

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

~ Clara Zetkin

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

~ Eugene V. Debs

It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

~ Ted Cruz

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

~ Thomas Clarkson

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

~ Stephen Covey

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

~ Edwin Louis Cole

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

~ Henry Iv Of England

I do go against my leadership all the time because I stand firm on the four questions that I ask about all legislation. The first, is it constitutional according to the original intent? The second, does it fit the Judeo-Christian Biblical principles that our nation is founded upon? Third, do we need it? Fourth, can we afford it?

~ Paul Broun

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

~ Davy Crockett

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

~ Joseph Smith

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

~ Emily Greene Balch

Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another.

~ William Godwin

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

~ George Jean Nathan

You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.

~ Jamie Dimon

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

~ Hans Hofmann

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

~ Jerzy Kosiński

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

~ Mark Twain

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

~ George W. Bush

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

~ Chris Christie

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

~ Hu Jintao

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

~ Michael Porter

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

~ William Henry Harrison

For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.

~ Butch Otter

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

~ Thomas Jefferson

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

~ Charles De Secondat

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

~ Woodrow Wilson

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

~ Muhammad Ali

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

~ Chris Christie

It is one thing to oppose a bill and say, 'Well, I'm smarter than the other side and have more wisdom than they do,' but it is another thing to oppose a law because it violates the very principles upon which this country was founded.

~ Scott Garrett

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

~ Thomas Paine

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

~ Stephen Covey

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

~ D. H. Lawrence

Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.

~ Marianne Williamson

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

~ George Mcgovern