Quotes by Principles Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle. William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne strongprinciplescharacter On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true. William James theismprinciplesgod A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man. William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne foolprinciplesmen True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution. William James habitprinciplesthinking Our policy is guided by the principle that we will keep unauthorized aliens out of the United States, welcome legal immigrants, and protect refugees from harm. Our solutions rely on working in partnership with States and communities. William J. Clinton immigrationcommunityprinciples There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience. William Lloyd Garrison slaveryprincipleswisdom We may be personally defeated, but our principles never! William Lloyd Garrison principlesmayinspirational The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power. William James adequacyprinciplesfacts Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work. Whatever your calling, master all its bearings and details, its principles, instruments and applications. Method is essential if you would get through your work easily and with economy of time. William Matthews principlesbusinessmind ...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that. William James karmabuddhistprinciples Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots. William McGregor Paxton chariotsvictoryprinciples It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today. William Morris Davis essentialsprinciplestoday Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them. William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield propertynotesprinciples The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law. William of Auxerre principleslawfirsts The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs. William O. Douglas freedom-of-speechprinciplespeople Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation. William Pitt principlesmeditationaction We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers. William Rehnquist governmentprinciplespower Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it. William Penn principlessidesmen Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security. William Safire differentprinciplespresident This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers. William S. Burroughs principlesgameswar«110111112113114115116117118119120»
