"My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them."
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"Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations."
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"The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration."
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"There are two amendments only which I am anxious for: 1. A bill of rights, which it is so much the interest of all to have that I conceive it must be yielded...2. The restoring of the principle of necessary rotation, particularly to the Senate and Presidency, but most of all to the last."
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"The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles."
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"Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom."
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"Were I to be the founder of a new sect, I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee, advise them to extract the honey of every sect. My fundamental principle would be ... that we are to be saved by our good works which are within our power, and not by our faith which is not within our power."
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"Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease."
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"Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion."
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"The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written."
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"Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue."
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"not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take."
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"Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone."
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"Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion."
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"Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive."
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"The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment."
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"We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation."
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"Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way."
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"I used the principles of Kickstarter to make 'She's Gotta Have It.' We filmed that in 1985 to 1986. The final cost was $175,000. I didn't have that money. It was friends, grants, donations. We saved our bottles for the nickel deposit."
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"Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior."
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