(889 quotes found)
“We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we've accomplished. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”
Ronald Reagan
“Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in. But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.”
Bill Watterson
“I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.”
Scott Adams
“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.”
Joseph Wood Krutch
“The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.”
Thomas Jefferson
“To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.”
Hazel Henderson
“Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.”
William Blake
“The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten”
Mark Twain
“To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.”
Albert Camus
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