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“Obama's personality traits, coupled with his extreme-leftist agenda, make him particularly dangerous to the American ideal and to the preservation of our founding principles, as well as to the liberty and prosperity they guarantee.”

Wells Liberty Principles Dangerous Personality Ideals Prosperity Extremes Guarantees Agendas Traits Preservation Founding Leftists Personality Traits

Author:David Limbaugh

“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

“Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will rarely be at a loss for other pretexts.”

Firsts Evil Loss Liberty Principles Failing Dangerous Fundamentals Temporary Pretext Fundamental Principles Deviation Prolonging

Book:Selected Writings of James Madison

Source: Selected Writings of James Madison

“To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility, dependence, masochism, unreliability, and a certain "babydoll" sexuality that is actually only a projection of male dreams. To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom, justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.”

“When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because it was realistic to maintain such principles and odd and dangerous to deviate from them, or because these maxims were more in harmony with their supposedly free tastes than others. They held to such ideas because they saw in them elements of truth, because they connected them with the idea of logos, whether in the form of God or of a transcendental mind, or even of nature as an eternal principle.”

“Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.”

Spirit Understanding Principles Dangerous Temper Spoil

Author:Jeremy Collier

“There is nothing as dangerous as an unembodied principle: no matter what blood flows, the principle comes first. The First Amendment absolutists operate precisely on unembodied principle.”

Firsts Matter Principles Blood Dangerous Flow No Matter What Amendments First Amendment Blood Flow

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.”

Source: Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life

“Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.”

May Company Principles Practice Dangerous Capable Consequence Gains Trade Extraordinary Occasions Strict Banking Speculation Flattering Strict Rules

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places. Principle #2: Do not defend your property. Principle #3: Respond immediately and escape.”

People Principles Dangerous Property Dangerous Places

Author:Sam Harris

“The world is a very dangerous place. But the world is not too dangerous of a place for the United States of America provided we act according to our principles, provided we act intelligently.”

World States America United Principles United States Dangerous United States Of America Dangerous Places

Author:Martin O'Malley

“Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles.... And eminent abilities, accompanied with depravity of heart, render the possessor tenfold more dangerous in a community.”

Heart Political Sound Community Ability Moral Principles Talent Dangerous Connected Depravity Knowledge Learning

Author:Noah Webster