Adherence Quotes

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

Success, Honesty, Business

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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Abraham Lincoln

Success, Political, Politics

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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

Freedom, 4th Of July, Blessing

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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

Religious, Science, Theory Of Evolution

James D. Watson (1970). “Molecular Biology of the Gene”

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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

Freedom, Blessing, Government

Virginia Declaration of Rights (Article 15), June 12, 1776.

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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Past, Essence, Politics

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When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.

Matthew Henry

Faith, Enjoy, Live By

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We love your adherence to democratic principles.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Love, Principles, Democratic

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It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.

Patrick Henry

Rights, Tyrants, People

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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.

Kate Smith

Intelligent, Analysis, Sincerity

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The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Government, Community, Political

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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

Real, Passion, Self

Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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The doctrine of the Church cannot be fully understood unless it is tested by mind and feelings, by intellect and emotions, by every power of the investigator. Every Church member is expected to understand the doctrine of the Church intelligently. There is no place in the Church for blind adherence.

John Andreas Widtsoe

Feelings, Mind, Church

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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

Ignorant, Judaism, Legalism

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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

Peace, Order, Law

Congressional Record, vol. 107, p. 11703., June 29, 1961.

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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

Exercise, Power, Police

Annual Message to Congress, 6 Dec. 1904. Known as the "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine

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I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

E. O. Wilson

Southern, Baptists, Grew

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In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

Myriam Miedzian

Men, Self, United States

Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.16, Lantern Books

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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

Christian, Jesus, Self

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.92, SCM Press

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Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

Richard Lewontin

Commitment, Acceptance, Science

"Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

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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

Regulation, Blind, Pursuit

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Bad men cannot make good citizens.

Patrick Henry

Men, Tyrants, Citizens

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Religious people claim that it's just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there's got to be something wrong with the religion itself if those who strictly adhere to its most fundamental principles are violent bigots and sexists.

David G. McAfee

Inspirational, God, Religious

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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

Justice, Voting, Foundation

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That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles; and by the recognition by all citizens that they have duties as well as rights, and that such rights cannot be enjoyed save in a society where law is respected and due process is observed.

George Mason

Blessing, Rights, Government

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