No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.
The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice.
It is no accident that faith in Jesus Christ - not only believing in Him but believing Him - is the first principle of the gospel.
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.
Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.
The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.
In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.
Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.
We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.
If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.
A person who stands in the principle of justice even under person is a just person
