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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. -- Albert Pike
I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. -- Charles Dickens
No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle. -- Henry F. Ashurst
They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none. -- Robert Toombs
God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle. -- Giacomo Casanova
The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person. -- Lafcadio Hearn
Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures - it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of 'Universality'. -- Richard P. Feynman
Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers -- Phil Collins
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant... -- Alexander Hamilton
The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe. -- Catharine Beecher
Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle. -- Hillary Clinton
In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to. -- Ernest Holmes
The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord. -- John Nelson Darby
There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle. -- J. C. Ryle
What is God? God is the great life that fills the universe; it is the principle of life aswell. -- Masahisa Goi
The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming. -- Charles Dickens
I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. -- Arthur C. Clarke
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I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I'm a huge advocate of plotting. -- Michael Scott
Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe." -- Brian Tracy
Loving and appreciating each individual, including ourselves, as the showing forth of the One Creative Principle, takes a great deal of humility and this includes sharing. -- Richard Kent
Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that. -- Susan B. Anthony
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Responsibility: Great leaders greet their geniuses through their greatest power of choice, principle-based living and highest means of expressing their voice. -- Anyaele Sam Chiyson
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government]. -- James Madison
As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest. -- Oscar Wilde
To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical. -- Jules Verne
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights. -- Leland Stanford
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. -- Charles Dickens
Ignorance of God and of ourselves is the great principle and cause of all our disquietments; and, this ariseth mostly not from want of light and instruction, but for want of consideration and application. -- John Owen
It is the law of our humanity that man must know good through evil. No great principle ever triumphed but through much evil. No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes. -- Frederick William Robertson
But I think it is also important that we pay tribute and acknowledge another great principle, and that is the principle of religious conviction. Religious freedom has no significance unless it is accompanied by conviction. -- John F. Kennedy

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