Principles Quotes

"The key principles are very beneficial to consumers - they deserve to have us putting new capabilities in,"

"Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season."

"In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current."

"Sound principles will not justify our taxing the industry of our fellow citizens to accumulate treasure for wars to happen we know not when, and which might not perhaps happen but from the temptations offered by that treasure"

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."

"Lack is more in means than in principles."

"The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions."

"I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed."

"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own."

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

"He should be held accountable by voters for eight years of principles betrayed and promises broken."

"The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these principles, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles."

"[Khalilzad acknowledged he was] personally disappointed ... some differences in views on details, but not on the main principles or major issues."

"This is a slap in the face to the very principles upon which the Council of Europe was established, namely democracy, human rights and the rule of law."

"Verbal assurances have been given that these principles would be adhered to."

"Live by your principles. There's an inner voice in you that truly knows what you want, that's why I do what I do."

"Action based only on principles isn't always good even if it feels good."

"We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives."

"Obey the principles without being bound by them."

"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles."