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“England was killed by an idea: the idea that the weak, indolent and profligate must be supported by the strong, industrious, and frugal – to the degree that tax-consumers will have a living standard comparable to that of taxpayers; the idea that government exists for the purpose of plundering those who work to give the product of their labor to those who do not work. The economic and social cannibalism produced by this communist-socialist idea will destroy any society which adopts it and clings to it as a basic principle – ANY society.”

“Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness the answer on both points must be in the negative. The Constitution of the U. S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. The law appointing Chaplains establishes a religious worship for the national representatives, to be performed by Ministers of religion, elected by a majority of them, and these are to be paid out of the national taxes. Does this not involve the principle of a national establishment ... ?”

“Many think it not only inevitable but entirely proper that liberty give way to security in times of national crisis--that, at the extremes of military exigency, inter arma silent leges. Whatever the general merits of the view that war silences law or modulates its voice, that view has no place in the interpretation and application of a Constitution designed precisely to confront war and, in a manner that accords with democratic principles, to accommodate it.”

Source: Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents

“No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist. If that principle was not learned from the internment of Japanese Americans, then these are very dangerous times for our democracy.”

Ifs Should Religion Race Principles Democracy Share Dangerous Terrorist Locked Spy Ethnicity Mass Incarceration Internment Race Ethnicity

Author:Fred Korematsu

“You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.”

Principles Dangerous Compromise Opposition Humiliated Humiliate

Author:Nelson Mandela

“Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim against the tide. ... We Christians were not chosen by the Lord for little things; push onwards toward the highest principles. Stake your lives on noble ideals, my dear young people!”

Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation

“The four Ways reflect a pervasive belief that life will be simple if we practice four basic principles: Show up or choose to be present, Pay attention to what has heart and meaning, Tell the truth without blame or judgment, and Be open, rather than attached to, the outcome.”

Ifs Way Heart Shows Belief Simple Pay Attention Principles Practice Four Judgment Blame Pay Attention Outcomes Telling The Truth Basic Principles

Author:Angeles Arrien

“I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.”

People Knows Want Care Principles Know How Vote Democratic Haiti

Author:Jean-Bertrand Aristide

“Just believing, just having a molecule of faith--that simple step, when focused on the Lord Jesus Christ, has ever been and always will be not only the first principle of His Eternal Gospel but also the first step out of despair.”

Firsts Believe Jesus Christ Simple Lord Steps Principles Despair Eternal Jesus Christ Focused First Steps Molecules Lord Jesus Christ

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.”

Law Term Moral Principles Return Morality Moral Principles Counterproductive Diminishing Returns

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“In government institutions and in teaching, you need to inspire confidence. To achieve credibility, you have to very clearly explain what you are doing and why. The same principles apply to businesses.”

Needs Government Principles Teaching Achieve Inspire Institutions Credibility

Author:Janet Yellen

“Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we've embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.”

Trying Stills Stories Change Company Principles Four Constant Forgotten Decades Tales Provoking Virgins Embedded Revision Positive Change Success Stories Business Change

Author:Richard Branson

“After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.”

Ifs Stories Certain Sound Simple Principles Written Sells Things To Do Basic Principles Salesmanship

Author:Erle Stanley Gardner

“The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally came to be considered as dogma. For this reason, it is proper to submit periodically to a very searching examination, principles that we have come to assume without any more discussion.”

Reason Shows Certain Principles Progress Influence Assuming Discussion Conception Submit Dogma Examination History Of Science

Author:Louis de Broglie

“Cover the canvas at the first go, and then work on till you see nothing more to add ... Don't proceed according to rules and principles, but paint what you observe and feel. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.”

Feels Firsts Loses Principles Add Paint Impression Canvas First Impression

Author:Camille Pissarro

“I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.”

States Law Spirit United Existence Principles United States Objects Letters Constitution Unions Destructive Inconsistent Nullification

Book:Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers

Source: Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers

“We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.”

Christian Nations Church Principles

Author:Philip Yancey

“Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.”

Sports Principles Management Basic Principles

Author:Will Carling

“I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.”

Men Believe I Believe Principles Equal Institutions Fundamentals Declaration Be A Slave Fundamental Principles

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television.”

People Persons Reality Values Principles Television Tvs Entertaining Good Person Reality Tv

Author:Ronda Rousey

“TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.”

Accepting Principles Conservative Implementation

Author:Jon Postel

“The principle, on which the war was waged by the North, was simply this: That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want; and that resistance, on their part, makes them traitors and criminals.”

Men Want May War Government Principles Support Criminals Resistance Submit Compelled Traitor

Book:Individualist anarchist pamphlets

Source: Individualist anarchist pamphlets

“No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom. Yet it triumphed in the field, and is now assumed to be established. If it really be established, the number of slaves, instead of having been diminished by the war, has been greatly increased; for a man, thus subjected to a government that he does not want, is a slave.”

Ifs Men Want Doe Has Beens War Self Government Political Numbers Principles Fields Slave Political Freedom

Book:No Treason: No. 1-

Source: No Treason: No. 1-

“We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal virtues which constitute the soul of republicanism.”

Source: Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical

“The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.”

People Country Principles Property Our Country Secure Justified Taxation Urgent

Book:Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings

Source: Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings

“What the members of the Church need, more than anything else, are strong testimonies of Jesus Christ and the gospel He restored. They need to know. And they need to know that they know. This is the best protection against the tsunami of temptations and the waves of immorality that crash against us. Perhaps this is just another reason why the first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!”

Knows Needs Firsts Reason Jesus Strong Christ Church Lord Principles Members Jesus Christ Wave Protection Temptation Reason Why Crash Testimony Immorality Lord Jesus Christ Tsunami

Author:John Bytheway

“The basic principle I have is that what is most Korean is what is the most international. I don't want to come here and act like I'm an American. I want to showcase the dynamic potential Korea has, and I want to prove that as an artist.”

Want Artist Principles Prove International Korea Korean Basic Principles Showcase

Author:PSY

“Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge demand but the supply is so limited to the point that the price goes up and up, look for the regulation that is causing it. This applies regardless of the sector, whether transportation, gas, education, food, beer, or daycare. There is something in the way that is preventing the market from working as it should. If you look carefully enough, you will find the hand of the state making the mess in question.”

Ifs Way Should Looks States Enough Use Hands Principles Policy Huge Demand Aspect Economics Mess Beer Gas Regulation Transportation Preventing Daycare

Author:Jeffrey Tucker

“The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.”

Giving May Mean Goal Pleasure Effort Principles Becoming Giving Up Realization

Book:Civilization and Its Discontents

Source: Civilization and Its Discontents

“You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.”

Firsts Would Be Asks Principles Economy Conditions Findings Priorities Ecology

Author:David Suzuki

“Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her principles for you, no matter how much you claim to love her. She will stand fast in her demands for total acceptance. If you can't receive her, she will recognize you as a false lover and leave you. And when you hear that door slam, it will take every tear in your eye, every ounce of blood in your veins, and all the nerve in your heart to win her back.”

Ifs Heart Matter Eye Winning Liberty Principles Doors Blood Acceptance Tears Lovers Demand Picks Claims Nerves Dislike Harsh Veins Mistress Slam Like And Dislike Tears In Your Eyes

Author:William H. Masters

“I studied what principles under-laid peace and prosperity and concluded the only way to achieve societal well-being was through a system of economic freedom.”

Way Wells Principles Economic Achieve Prosperity Well Being Economic Freedom Economic Prosperity

Author:Charles Koch

“I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.”

Use Deals Numbers Principles Theory Decided Mathematics Mathematical Code Cryptography

Author:Jim Sanborn

“Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.”

Ends Quality Wonder Principles Source Curiosity Connected Satisfied Rational Idiot Piety

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.”

Simple Effort Principles Members Thanks Propaganda Labour Conventions June Supervision

Author:Leon Jouhaux

“Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.”

People Made Different Principles Possibility Theory Capable Argument Observation Different Peoples Objectivity Checking Out

Author:Jose Padilha

“Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives”

Humans Human Beings Principles Economic Capitalism Selfish Motive Justified Adopted Doing Good Selfish Motives

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself; and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hands in the pocket of another.”

Ifs Men Doe Hands Principles Forgiving Revenge Suits Pockets Cheat Vocation Quarrels Thorough Plunder Knaves Rupture Knavery

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.”

Government Law Lying Liberty Principles Subjects Position Citizens Foundation Deny Command Civil Rights Officials Exceptional Civil Liberties Government Officials Law Courts

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.”

Ifs Way Should War Strong Force Lines Principles Military Policy Position Resistance Opponents Climbs Retreat Ladders

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“The universe runs on a fundamental and oh-so-wonderful principle... when you get really clear and honest about what you want, everything in the universe conspires to help you get it.”

Want Helping Running Universe Principles Clear Wonderful Honest Positive Fundamentals Attraction What You Want Law Of Attraction Get Real

Book:You Can Have What You Want

Source: You Can Have What You Want

“There are two principles for creative success - one general and one definitive. The general principle is that everyone has the ability to be creative and make a big difference in this world. The definitive principle is that almost everyone has volunteered to be exempt from the general principle.”

World Inspirational Two Bigs Differences Ability Principles Creative This World Be Creative

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“"My #1 guiding principle for a successful life (learned from J Brad Britton): "Do the right thing; not the easy thing." Everyday, you are constantly faced with choices to do either the right thing (any activity that moves you closer to where and who you want to be) or the easy thing (anything else). In every moment of choice, choose to do the right thing over the easy thing, and your becoming successful is inevitable.”

Want Moments Moving Choices Easy Principles Successful Becoming Gratitude Activity Everyday Inevitable Right Thing Brad Successful Life Easy Things Becoming Successful Guiding Principles

Author:Hal Elrod

“Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in a selected section. This may be called the "Principle of the Golden Spike." Then stratigraphical nomenclature can be forgotten and we can get on with the real work of stratigraphy, which is correlation and interpretation.”

Ifs May Real Shows Hands Science Decision Principles Forgotten Golden Interpretation Units Sections Arbitrary Selected Geology Correlation Real Work Nomenclature

Author:D. V. Ager

“The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.”

Government Action Individual Principles Morality Property Opposition Nationalism Patriot Private Property Vigilance Individual Freedom Scrutinize

Book:The tyranny of gun control

Source: The tyranny of gun control

“In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.”

Love Order Choices Peace Principles Practice Democracy Democratic Peaceful Transition Multiple Homeland Multiple Choice

Author:Ali Abdullah Saleh

“Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the Turkey carpet out of which a picture might be made. There are words in Mr. Montgomery's writing which, when disposed in certain orders and combinations,have made, and will make again, good poetry. But, as they now stand, they seem to be put together on principle in such a manner as to give no image of anything in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.”

Giving Writing Made Seems Might Earth Together Certain Order Heaven Water Principles Bears Relation Combination Colour Turkeys Carpet Montgomery Good Poetry

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers-that is to say, as markets.”

Source: Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

“I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free. The Economy does not take people's freedom by force, which would be against its principles, for it is very humane. It buys their freedom, pays for it, and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom. "Buy a car," it says, "and be free. Buy a boat and be free." Is this not the raw material of bad dreams? Or is it maybe the very nightmare itself?”

Source: Jayber Crow: A Novel

“If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of America affairs-the Constitution may be nullified by the President and officers who have taken the oath and are under moral obligation to uphold it....they may substitute personal and arbitrary government-the first principle of the totalitarian system against which it has been alleged that World War II was waged-while giving lip service to the principle of constitutional government.”

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