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• CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there’s a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn’t work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he’s a journalist and not a police agent.

  Floyd Abrams

  Tags in Principle, Journalist, Stake

• We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in National, Consultation, Verdict, Principle

• We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basic, Security, Should, Sign, Principle

• I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Seeing, Principle

• The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

  Adlai E. Stevenson II

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Principle, Forum, Freedom

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

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Existence, Born, Principle

• The extension of women’s rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

  Charles Fourier

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  Tags in Women, Equality, Social, Principle

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

  William Ewart Gladstone

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  Tags in Government, Good, Principle

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

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Morality, Nations, Commerce, Principle

• In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Current, Like, Principle, Matters

• 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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  Tags in American, Principle, Mind

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

  Thomas Jefferson

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  Tags in Parent, Force, Principle

• All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

  Thomas Jefferson

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  Tags in Majority, Protect, Oppression, Principle, Minority, Mind

• 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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  Tags in Discover, School, Every, Universe, Principle

• 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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  Tags in Vice, Moderation, Good, Virtue, Temper, Thing, Principle

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

  Kin Hubbard

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Principle

• Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

  Thomas Fuller

  Topics in Beauty, God

  Tags in Building, Principle, Daughter

• Rather than have it the principal thing in my son’s mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.

  Thomas Arnold

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  Tags in Think, Rather, Principle, Mind

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

  Theodor W. Adorno

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  Tags in Always, Wrong, Principle

• 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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  Tags in Concealed, Far, Principle