#principles

I don't compromise my principles for politics. ↗

— Chris Christie

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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

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

— William McKinley

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The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. ↗

— Hu Jintao

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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government. ↗

— Marco Rubio

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