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“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”
Oscar Wilde
“He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.”
Aesop
“He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of Christianity, will revolutionize the world”
Benjamin Franklin
“I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.”
“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.”
Alex Karras
“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.”
Mark Twain
“Important principles may and must be inflexible.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.”
Everett Dirksen
“We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.”