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• If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• This fight against drilling in the Arctic Refuge is a fight about our principles. Its about standing up for our environment, our families and our future, and I wont give up this fight.

  John Kerry

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• Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

  Mark Twain

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• There are three principles in a man’s being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don’t do what I say.

  Martin Buber

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• And I’ve always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

  Morris West

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• The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.

  Rudolf Arnheim

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• I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won’t let himself get snotty about it.

  Raymond Chandler

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• The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

  Richard Dawkins

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• A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• There should be a moral principle there that says, let’s green the ghetto first. Let’s go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution.

  Van Jones

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• Fascism is itself less ‘ideological’, in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

  Theodor W. Adorno

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• The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.

  Theodor W. Adorno

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• When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money.

  Kin Hubbard

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• A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

  Thomas Paine

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• Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

  Thomas Paine

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• Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

  William Ewart Gladstone

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• We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

  Benjamin Disraeli

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