Principles Quotes - Page 55

This is a core principle of my presidency - if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution.

Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.

I like Arsene for his principles but principles are sort of a restriction and restrictions are always lost possibilities.

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it.

Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality, you unhinge all the principles that must preserve the limits of free constitutions.

The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution.… On natural principles, a treaty, which should manifestly betray or sacrifice primary interests of the state, would be null.

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists.

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.