#principle

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#cotton #drudge #give #give me #grave

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#begins #either #ends #evil #fanaticism

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#government #inconsistent #our #principles

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#debts #every #generation #goes #incumbent

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

— Thomas Jefferson

#civilized nations #commerce #money #morality #nations

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#breathe #could #culture #develop #find

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#been #china #coexistence #committed #cooperation

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#american citizen #citizen #enough #follow #good