Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
A precedent embalms a principle.
I don't compromise my principles for politics.
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other...
I know that I basically have the same hair as Beaker from 'the Muppets.'
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.
Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Excel suffers from an image problem. Most people assume that spreadsheet programs such as Excel are intended for accountants, analysts, financiers, scientists, mathematicians, and other geeky types. Creating a spreadsheet, sorting data, using functio...
I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sle...
Wiseman: When you removed the book from the cradle, did you speak the words? Ash: Yeah, basically. Wiseman: Did you speak the exact words? Ash: Look, maybe I didn't say every single little tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah.
My parents are retired, basically.
My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
