#principle

That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#agreed #agreement #germany #greater #potsdam

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations. ↗

— Herman Cain

#approach #association #burger #burger king #business

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#general #general principles #leaves #principles #root

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#accords #civilians #geneva #international #international law

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#english #great #great principle #itself #law

Damn your principles! Stick to your party. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#party #principles #stick #your

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#independence #miracle #nationality #physical #political

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#decided #eager #foundation #geometry #i

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare. ↗

— Larry Elder

#behavior #charity #corporate #distorts #less

Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#art #bring #dealing #different #different way