Quotes by Principles Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada principlesessencebook A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department. A. J. Liebling politicianlouisianaprinciples Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have. A. J. P. Taylor principlesplayerhistory True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer. A. Powell Davies disbelieversprinciplesrights Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this ordinance. Confirmation and the gift of the Holy Ghost follow baptism. Acceptance of these first principles and ordinances may obtain for us a remission of our sins and assure our salvation. In the ordinance of the sacrament, we regularly renew this and other covenants, and by complying with our part of the covenant, we receive the Spirit of the Lord to be with us. A. Theodore Tuttle baptismprinciplesacceptance The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament. A. V. Dicey principleslawmean The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap Aaron Allston razorsprinciplesanswers It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation. Abdul Sattar Edhi donationgovernmentprinciples It is because of my principle that people continue to give. Abdul Sattar Edhi principlesgivingpeople Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law. Abraham Joshua Heschel energyprincipleslaw If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it. Abraham Lincoln divineprincipleslinks A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left. Abraham Lincoln majorityprinciplespeople I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest. Abraham Lincoln principlesmenbelieve The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. Abraham Lincoln free-societydefinitionsprinciples Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object. Abraham Lincoln principlesjudgingmen I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself. Abraham Lincoln fixedstandardsprinciples What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism. Abraham Lincoln anchorsprinciplesmen Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest. Abraham Lincoln moralmoneyprinciples The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers. Abraham Lincoln principleslawnegative It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to record and throw themselves out for actual use, views are likely to be induced, which should again react on the more theoretical phase of the subject. Ada Lovelace principlesuseviews1234567891011»
