#principle

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. ↗

— John Locke

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The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society. ↗

— Theresa May

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I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

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According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

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No matter what side of the spectrum you're on, you like to see your team fighting for the principle. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

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I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth. ↗

— George McGovern

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The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

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To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

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