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"I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war."
"Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it."
"The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave."
"Secular progressivism, which attempts to remove God from the public square, is not consistent with the principles that established the USA."
"Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away."
"Protection is not a principle but an expedient"
"If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to."
"Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for instance. However, this function went wrong when the principle source of insecurity came to be the operation of thought itself."
"The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life."
"Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful."
"We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days."
"Because, therefore, we are defending a way of life, we must be respectful of that way of life as we proceed to the solution of our problem. We must not violate its principles and its precepts, and we must not destroy from within what we are trying to defend from without."
"To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawking, among others."
"'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society."
"The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world."
"I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please."
"I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts."
"Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was."
"Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means."
"The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization."
