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• If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?

  John Adams

  Men, Foundation, Sober

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.194

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• We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong.

  Henry Miller

  War, Common Sense, Shadow

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.115, New Directions Publishing

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• The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation: The doctrine of a supreme, intelligent sovereign of the universe, I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization.

  John Adams

  Believe, Men, Intelligent

  John Adams (1965). “The John Adams papers”

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• In accordance to the principles of doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.

  Michael Moore

  Real, War, Ignorance

  "Fictional character: Winston Smith". "1984", 1984.

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• Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit; for such mutilation undercuts the life principle of trust, without which every human act, may it feel ever so good and seem ever so right is prone to perversion by destructive forms of conscientiousness.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, May, Spirit

  Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History”, p.70, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life

  William Ellery Channing

  Lying, Character, Soul

  William Ellery CHANNING (1839). “Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838”, p.4

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• A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol

  Jeremy Taylor

  Mother, Sweet, Self

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• 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.

  Adam Smith

  Practice, Banking, May

  Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart (1843). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.104

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• The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity

  John Adams

  Father, Independence, Christianity

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.45

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• What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.

  Ben Nelson

  Mean, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.

  Tim Johnson

  Country, Commitment, Air

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• I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my principles or my honor, should it be a matter of life or death, of right or wrong, then here are my weapons, Karate, my Empty Hands.

  Ed Parker

  Hands, Honor, Weapons

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• Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

  Akhenaton

  Character, Men, Rely Upon

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• On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.

  Daniel Webster

  Morning, Military, Power

  Speech in the Senate on the President's Protest, 7 May 1834

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• Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

  John Newton

  Exercise, People, Moderation

  John Newton (1830). “Forty-one Letters on Religious Subjects, Originally Published Under the Signatures of Omicron and Vigil”, p.145

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• Presence always wins out over principles.

  Bill Johnson

  Winning

  Bill Johnson (2015). “Face to Face with God”, p.14, Charisma Media

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• If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.

  Daniel Webster

  Country, Goes On, Taught

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• The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Spring, Heart, Saint

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.265

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• I love this country, I love the principles on which it's founded.

  Ross Perot

  Country, America

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• Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.

  Ed Parker

  Sequence, Precedence

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• When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.

  Bill Johnson

  Kings, Kingdoms, Pursue

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• The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time.

  David J. Schwartz

  Progress, Steps, Determined

  David J Schwartz (2016). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.315, Random House

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• You are to think of yourself as only existing in this world to do God's will. To think that you are your own is as absurd as to think you are self-created. It is an obvious first principle that you belong completely to God.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Thinking

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• The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it... He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that...in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.

  Adam Smith

  Wise, Men, Hands

  "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" by Adam Smith, (Section II, Chap. II), 1759.

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• The Europeans are all deeply tainted with prejudices, both ecclesiastical and temporal, which they can never get rid of. They are all infected with episcopal and presbyterian creeds, and confessions of faith. They all believe that great Principle which has produced this boundless universe, Newton's universe and Herschell's universe, came down to this little ball, to be spit upon by Jews. And until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.

  John Adams

  Believe, Prejudice, Balls

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.525, Penguin

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