45 quotes found
“The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.”
“A person must have principles, Epiphany. That's the one thing no one can take from you. The only way you can lose your principles is to give them up. Remember that.”
“Life is indeed terribly complicatedto a man who has lost his principles.”
“It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design.”
“We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!”
“Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.”
“Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.”
“A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.”
“Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.”
“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”
“The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.”
“One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.”
“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.”
“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.”
“Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.”
“The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.”
“The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.”
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.”
“About my interests: I don’t know if I have any, unless the morbid desire to own a sixteen-millimeter camera and make experimental movies can be so classified. Otherwise, I love to eat and drink – i...”
