Principles Quotes
These are some of the best 'Principles' quotations and sayings.
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A principle is one thing; a maxim or rule is another. - A principle requires liberality; a rule says, "one tenth." - A principle says, "forgive"; a rule defines "seven times."
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Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
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Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.
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Better be poisoned in one's blood, than to be poisoned in one's principles.
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Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. - Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on the shifting sands.
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He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.
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It's a matter of having principles. It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
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Many men do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.
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Principle is a passion for truth and right.
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Principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed, and stand fast.
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The change we personally experience from time to time, we obstinately deny to our principles.
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The restless mind of man cannot but press a principle to the real limit of its application, even though centuries should intervene between the premises and the conclusion.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of a disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
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What is the essence and the life of character? Principle, integrity, independence, or, as one of our great old writers has it, "That inbred loyalty unto virtue which can serve her without a livery."
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What we have created is a business organization dedicated to rigid principles.
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