“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”
Hebbel
“Wealthy people with means should be required to pay something on debts and not be able to walk away from them.”
Wayne Abernathy
“The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten”
Mark Twain
“But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.”
Albert Einstein
“When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.”
Eugene Debs
“Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest”
Abraham Lincoln
“The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.”
