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"The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap."

"Principle' [Established Truth] means everywhere applicable; when there is nothing else, it is called Principle."

"Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite."

"Only the 'Right belief' gives rise to non-contradicting principle and that which is free from contradiction is known as 'Principle'."

"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages."

"Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for."

"In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right."

"This 'Akram science' does not scorn worldly interaction in the slightest. While living absolutely within it's reality, It does not scorn the worldly interaction. Not scorning worldly interaction is itself a thing of principle."

"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled."
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"It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan."


"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."


"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollection of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."


"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none."


"An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry."
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