Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.
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.
We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.
I think the best thing that can happen to the Republican Party is that it is identified as a party organized around a set of principles, ideals and ideas for our future.
The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach.
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling.
Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there....
In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character.
How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
We have in Tennessee a number of wonderful faith-based clinics to serve the uninsured. It is an important principle with them that everyone pays something as they are able.
The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.
A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent storytelling.
The first rule about the low hanging fruit principle is to always watch out for low hanging branches, they’re the ones to take it away from you.
Human mind & news Media work on the same principle: Unsatisfied with the past; worried about future; ignorant about the present moment.
CBS's Ed Murrow may have been over-celebrated as the principled observer for the masses, fair yet unafraid to take on the bullies.
Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.
If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
