#principle

I follow a set of principles, I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom and individual liberty. ↗

— Justin Amash

#constitution #economic #economic freedom #follow #freedom

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#cannot #ceases #degenerates #essence #into

I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world. ↗

— John Amery

#appeal #arms #been #call #defence

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#any #based #cost #hope #justice

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private. ↗

— Mary Astell

#few #good #lasting #many #preferable

We in the West should stand by our core principles. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#our #principles #should #stand #west

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#christian #conscription #contradiction #democratic #flat

We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#claim #does #live #lives #our

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#like #others #principles #them #those

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#carrying #intention #mean #out #practice