#principles

You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#core #creating #environment #getting #government

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#executive #free #legislative #lost #nominated

We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#capable #complexity #construction #creature #drive

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. ↗

— Martha Graham

#athlete #becomes #dance #dancing #god

Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold. ↗

— Kay Granger

#character #chooses #constitution #control #dictator

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches. ↗

— Frederick The Great

#escape #know #made #man #me

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. ↗

— Harry Harrison

#happiness #important #life #live #most

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more. ↗

— William Henry Harrison

#carried #government #i #i wish #more

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#achieve #control #deliberate #deplorable #effects

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#above #all things #animal #animal world #brutal