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We love your adherence to democratic principles. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity. -- Kate Smith
I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. -- E. O. Wilson
The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights. -- Elihu Root
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. -- James D. Watson
I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals. -- Fred Melamed
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well. -- Alan Greenspan
Adherence to men, is often disloyalty to principles. -- John Taylor of Caroline
When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence. -- Matthew Henry
Adherence to dogmas has destroyed more armies and cost more battles than anything in war. -- J. F. C. Fuller
Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace. -- Ludwig von Mises
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried? -- Abraham Lincoln
In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual. -- Myriam Miedzian
The Conservative does not despise government. He despises tyranny. This is precisely why the Conservative reveres the Constitution and insists on adherence to it. -- Mark Levin
No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue. -- George Mason
There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single billing code for patient adherence or improvement, or for helping patients stay well. -- Clayton Christensen
By his willingly renouncing self-defence, the Christian affirms his absolute adherence to Jesus, and his freedom from the tyranny of his own ego. The exclusiveness of this adherence is the only power which can overcome evil. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power. -- Theodore Roosevelt
That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain to look for public virtue; it is, therefore, the duty of legislators to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility, as well as the necessity, of a strict adherence to the rules of distributive justice. -- James Madison
It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we do so at our peril. -- J. William Fulbright
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. -- Patrick Henry
What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy...should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth. -- Margaret Fuller
Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence. -- John Shelby Spong
Integrity, a firm adherence to the highest moral and ethical standards, is essential to the life of a true Latter-day Saint. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers. -- David Mixner
In terms of personalities - I don't care about the personalities, I want leadership that's in favor of my principles: free markets, adherence to the Constitution, and equal treatment for everyone under the law. -- Dave Brat
But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? -- George Haven Putnam
Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age. -- Benazir Bhutto
I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions. -- Samantha Power
The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the initial moment of shock, they decided to severely punish those participating in what they called an act of disobedience to authority. -- Safak Pavey
During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated on the practicalities of engineering and construction rather than the niceties of stylistic correctness or adherence to established precedent. -- Martin Filler
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it. -- Martin Van Buren
I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all. -- Sharon Salzberg
We love your adherence to democratic principles and to democratic processes. -- Ferdinand Marcos
The patriotic spirit demands loyal and strict adherence to nonviolence and truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice. -- John Locke
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions. -- M.M. Kaye
What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue. -- John Marshall
As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death. -- Alfred North Whitehead
English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities. -- Elspeth Huxley
The German has not the slightest notion how a people must be misled if the adherence of the masses is sought. -- Adolf Hitler
For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade. -- Noam Chomsky
One of the most marked characteristics of our day is a reckless neglect of principles, and a rigid adherence to their semblance. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Devotion to the facts will always give the pleasures of recognition; adherence to the rules of design, the pleasures of order and certainty. -- Kenneth Clark
ClichÃ©s, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality. -- Hannah Arendt
A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations. -- Newton D. Baker
Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of mankind. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good. -- Douglas B. Reeves
You have to get buy-in as a leader, instead of demanding adherence to management. Phil Jackson sought Michael Jordan's support before installing the triangle offense. -- Chris Lytle
Godâ??s eternal blessings are contingent upon our obedience and adherence to the word of the Lord that is revealed to us through His holy prophets -- L. Tom Perry
It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence to the rules is essential. -- Francis Ouimet
Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation. -- Simone Weil
Whether it's a sitting president when I was an impeachment manager, or a Republican president who has taken liberties with adherence to the law, to me the standard is the same. -- Bob Barr
Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom. -- John F. Kennedy
In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
The ultimate success of this government and the stability of its institutions, its progress in all that can make a nation honored, depend upon its adherence to the principles of truth and righteousness. -- Jon Lord
There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying. -- Winston Churchill
You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence to superstition. Dispelling ignorance is the only solution. That is why I teach. -- Irvin D. Yalom
Moral maturity and freedom require more than mere adherence to the law; they require an understanding of the why and wherefore of its rules and regulations- the principles that make it worthy of their allegiance. -- Karen Bohlin

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