Principles Quotes

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles.

Abraham Lincoln

Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.

Thomas Jefferson

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Albert Camus

The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.

Thomas Jefferson

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us....

Thomas Jefferson

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of Al Qaeda gangsterism to recur. So the outcome is proportionate and congruent with international principles of self-defense.

Christopher Hitchens

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Henry Ward Beecher

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.

Harry Harrison

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

Mark Twain

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Charles Dickens

The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.

David Mamet

The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

Thomas Jefferson

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest

Abraham Lincoln

Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

Christopher Hitchens

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.

Jacques Barzun

Success is the ability to rise above principle.

Gerald Barzan

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Adlai Stevenson

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

Dan Quayle

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Thomas Jefferson