#principle

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#choose #his #inexorably #lying #method

The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points. ↗

— John Sununu

#campaigns #conveyed #driven #effort #expectations

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing. ↗

— Terence

#any #i #life #much #one thing

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions. ↗

— Valentina Tereshkova

#bible #change #close #commandments #convictions

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

— Thomas Jefferson

#like #matters #principle #rock #stand

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#first #first principle #flow #forum #free

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#different #happened #independence #principle #secession

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#act #any #comes #deny #easily

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy. ↗

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

#bought #first #i #learn #order

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#candle #devil #god #light #principle