Quotes:
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
View quotes by George William Curtis
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
View quotes by Franklin D Roosevelt
We can never have too much preparation and training. We must be a strong competitor. We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead.
View quotes by Ralph Bunche
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
View quotes by Imannuel Kant
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
View quotes by Arthur Calwell
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
View quotes by William Lamb Melbourne
In principle, I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him [on Arafat]
View quotes by Ariel Sharon
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
View quotes by Raymond Chandler
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
View quotes by Albert Pike
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
View quotes by Raymond Chandler
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
View quotes by Franz Kafka
The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
View quotes by Huey Long
A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
View quotes by Luc De Vauvanargues
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
View quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy
View quotes by Felix Frankfurter
The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
View quotes by Erwin Griswold
America was founded on the principle of freedom of speech.
View quotes by Tom Ford
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
View quotes by Thomas Jefferson
The great principle of human satisfaction is engagement
View quotes by William Paley