“Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“Wealthy people with means should be required to pay something on debts and not be able to walk away from them.”
Wayne Abernathy
“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten”
Mark Twain
“If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest”
Thomas Jefferson
“Men have laid down the rules and definitions by which the world is run, and one of the objects of their definitions is woman”
Sally Kempton
“Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.”
Akhenaton
