#principles

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth. ↗

— James Otis

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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles. ↗

— Plato

#community #neither #noblest #nor #poverty

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change. ↗

— Michael Porter

#enduring #pace #principles #regardless #strategy

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#conducted #government #often #principles #reformers

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#back #being #believe #constitution #economy

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#cannot #discover #every #fixed #governed

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed. ↗

— William McKinley

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