Quotes by Principles Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field. Thomas Traherne influencefieldsprinciples Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them. Thomas Paine principlesmenscience The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not expressed in direct terms, it is clearly the spirit of the Constitution, and it ought to be so commented and acted on by every friend of free government. Thomas Jefferson governmentprinciplesspirit It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end. Thomas Jefferson principlesgivingmean Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage. Thomas Szasz adultsprincipleschildren If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself. Thornton T. Munger amusementprinciplesmay To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle. Thomas Sowell violationjudgmentalprinciples While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time. Thorstein Veblen abidingpatentsprinciples Of course, we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval. Thomas S. Monson principlescouragefaces Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. Thomas Jefferson governmentprincipleswar To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Thomas Jefferson media-controlprinciplessound There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. Thomas S. Monson christmasprinciplesjesus Before anything can be reasoned upon to a conclusion, certain facts, principles, or data, to reason from, must be established, admitted, or denied. Thomas Paine dataprinciplesfacts A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it had, it would be arbitrary. It might make itself what it pleased; and wherever such a right is set up, it shows there is no constitution. Thomas Paine governmentprincipleswould-be And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any. Thomas Paine painhypocriteprinciples Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission. Thomas Jefferson honestyprinciplesmen ...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity. Thomas Paine greatnessprincipleshumanity Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author. Thomas Paine principlesdiscoverymen My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them. Thomas Jefferson consequenceprinciples ...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist. Thomas Paine sovereigngovernmentprinciples«102103104105106107108109110111112»
