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"Principle' [Established Truth] means everywhere applicable; when there is nothing else, it is called Principle."
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"That which never attains a state of non-principle [non-truth] is known as the principle."
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"The first principle of time is that it must be converted into product."
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"Mirabelle always ate her lunch on Brighton beach if the weather was in any way passable, but out of sheer principle she never paid tuppence for a chair. We did not win the war to have to pay to sit down, she frequently found herself thinking."
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"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."
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"I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be."
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"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled."
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"Only the 'Right belief' gives rise to non-contradicting principle and that which is free from contradiction is known as 'Principle'."
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"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."
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"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."
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"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."
Wisdom
"It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."
Freedom
"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."
Freedom
"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."
Life
"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
Freedom
"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it."
Justice
"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."
Leadership
"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."
Relationship
"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."
Democracy
"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other."
Philosophy
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