#principles

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear. ↗

— Kofi Annan

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The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. ↗

— John Acton

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It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support. ↗

— Jesse Helms

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This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

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You know some people are all about talk. I'm about results. Every victory, every conservative victory, I've had, I've had to bleed and fight to accomplish it, always adhering to our conservative principles, and refusing to take no for an answer. ↗

— David Dewhurst

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Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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