"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles."
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"Imitate nothing except principle."
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"The traditional Jeffersonian principle of religious freedom was so broadly democratic that it included the right to have no religion at all - it gave to the individual the right to worship any God he chose or no god."
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"The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail."
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"If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness."
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"If the principle is, "Let's not get lethal substances out to the public", the first one you'd go after is tobacco. The next one you'd go after is alcohol. Way down the list you'd get to cocaine, and sort of invisibly low you'd get to marijuana."
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"Maybe one of the jobs of theory or philosophy is to elevate principles that seem impossible, or that have the status of the impossible, to stand by them and will them, even when it looks highly unlikely that they'll ever be realised. But that's ok, it's a service."
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"That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies."
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"What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow."
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"The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater."
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"Unless the power of the corporation can be organized on an accepted principle of legitimacy, it will be taken over by a Central government"
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"The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles."
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"Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger."
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"Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm."
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"Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos."
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"What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism."
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"In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to."
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"Mind exists as a Principle in the universe, just as electricity exists as a principle."
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"Principle is ever my motto, no expediency."
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"The investor has a right to expect good results to flow from a consistent and courageous application of the principle of buying after the market has declined substantially and selling after it has had a spectacular rise. But he cannot expect to reduce this principle to a simple and foolproof formula, with profits guaranteed and no anxious periods."
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