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The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together. ↗

— Ted Cruz

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Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater. ↗

— Ted Cruz

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Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

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I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. ↗

— Everett Dirksen

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Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity. ↗

— Robert Evans

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This may be done by grafting, by confining the roots, withholding water, bending the branches, or in a hundred other ways which all proceed upon the same principle. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. ↗

— Thomas Frank

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What we have at present is a system of loss socialism. Whatever goes wrong is shouldered by the general public and anything that works is privatised. Worshippers of market freedom have suspended the most important economic principle: Risk and liability go hand in hand. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

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