Quotes by Principles The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable. James E. Faust doctrinechurchprinciples It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. James F. Cooper agencyprinciplesevil The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong James Gleick townsprinciplespeople This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle. James L. Buckley principlesambitionway If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications. Henry David Thoreau applicationfamiliarprinciples Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality. James MacGregor Burns levelsprinciplespeople A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends. James Monroe causesprinciplespeople If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed. James Oglethorpe slaveryprinciplestogether I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial, but if ever I should, it will be then known how far I can reduce to practice, principles, which I know to be founded in truth. James Otis principlestrialspractice My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development. James Prescott Joule developmentprinciplesfirsts The American people don't need to just hear about the importance of the Constitution or the Bible. They have to understand that those principles are in their best interests. James Robison principlespeopleneeds It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions. James Sharp our-actionshonestprinciples It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute. James Madison principleswaramerica I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other. James Madison debtgovernmentprinciples Particular bits of knowledge are nothing, because they are made up of what Dr. Robert Hutchins once called rapidly aging facts. Principles and method are everything. James Webb Young drsprinciplesfacts It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly by our own, as a necessary safeguard against the danger of degeneracy, to which republics are liable, as well as other governments, though in a less degree than others. James Madison governmentprincipleseducation In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to render them by different modes of election, and different principles of action, as little connected with each other as the nature of their common functions, and their common dependence on the society, will admit. James Madison politicalgovernmentprinciples A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller. James Russell Lowell purposeprinciplesmight Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide hitherto unavailable insights.... Notice that, although originality is a necessary condition of high aesthetic value, it is far from a sufficient condition. Many original works have little or no aesthetic value. An artwork may present a novel but uninteresting perspective, or one that is original but wrong. James Young perspectiveprinciplesart I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to have been proposed, advocated, and adopted. If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one. James Madison biddinggovernmentprinciples«4546474849505152535455»
