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“The political system of the United States is essentially extra-European. To stand in firm and cautious independence of all entanglement in the European system has been a cardinal point of their policy under every administration of their government from the peace of 1783 to this day...Every year's experience rivets it more deeply in the principles and opinions of the nation.”

Source: Writings of John Quincey Adams

“Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial.”

Real Self Principles Generations Rocks Denial Firm Sinner Host Multitudes Tempted Oaks Maintenance Sturdy Self Reliant Swerve Enticement

Book:Lectures

Source: Lectures

“To be energetic and firm where principle demands it, and tolerant in all else, is not easy. It is not easy to abhor wickedness, and oppose it with every energy, and at the same time to have the meekness and gentleness of Christ, becoming all things to all men for the truth's sake. The energy of patience, the most godlike of all, is not easy.”

Men Energy Easy Christ Principles Becoming Demand All Things Sake Firm Wickedness Gentleness Energetic Meekness Godlike

Book:Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield

Source: Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield

“It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.”

Men May Principles Honesty Easier Ruins Firm Yield Ruined Scruples Supple Knavery

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“The principle of faith is as firm as the very pillars of heaven.”

Heaven Principles Firm Pillars

Author:Rudger Clawson

“Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this.... Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal. Her temper serene and firm.... The remembrance then of what is past, if it operates rightly must inspire her with the most laudable of an ambition, that of adding to the fair fame she began with. The world has seen her great adversity.... Let then, the world see that she can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to the bravest virtue in time of war.”

Ifs World War Country America Past Causes Principles Virtue Honest Inspire Bears Fame Equal Ambition Fairs Adversity Prosperity Opening Firm Temper Remembrance Serene

Author:Thomas Paine

“The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.”

Happens Christian Religious Views Principles Issues One Thing Media Firm Exception

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times.”

Men Different Pleasure Principles Mankind Particular Diversity Firm Stable Variables Different Times

Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works

“Passengers don't like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There's a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn't care where and how it's pushed around.”

Mean Has Beens Care Running Waiting Principles Jokes Stress Planes Firm Passengers Baggage Cargo Hub

Author:Stelios Haji-Ioannou

“Ronald Reagan knew his own mind. He had firm principles - and, I believe, right ones. He expounded them clearly, he acted upon them decisively.”

Mind Believe I Believe Principles Firm

Author:Margaret Thatcher