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• In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.

  John Strachan

  Government, Revelations, Vain

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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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• Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious and impartial researchers, the longest liver of you all will find no principles, institutions or systems of education more fit in general to be transmitted to your posterity than those you have received from your ancestors.

  John Adams

  Voting, Curiosity, Wish

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• If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human liberty and human happiness. Auspicious omens cheer us. Great examples are before us. Our own firmament now shines brightly upon our path.

  Daniel Webster

  Cheer, Father, Shining

  Daniel Webster (1853). “The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster”, p.24

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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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• Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

  Adam Smith

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Discovery

  'Essays on Philosophical Subjects' (1795) 'The History of Astronomy' sect. 3, para. 3

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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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• Since natural law was thought to be accessible to the ordinary man, the theory invited each juror to inquire for himself whether a particular rule of law was consonant with principles of higher law. This view is reflected in John Adams' statement that it would be an 'absurdity' for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, 'against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.'

  John Adams

  Men, Views, Law

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• Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.

  William Ellery Channing

  Powerful, Spring, War

  William Ellery Channing (1835). “The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...”, p.34

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• War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.

  William Ellery Channing

  Jesus, War, Roots

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Lecture on War”, p.17

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• I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.

  Jim Evans

  Educational, Training, Four

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• This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

  Kevin Kelly

  Mean, Important, Evolution

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• I get angry at a principle, not a person.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Persons, Angry

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• Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before, his soul was under the government of the noble principles of divine love, whereby it was enlarged to the comprehensiveness of all his fellow creatures and their welfare... [But] sin, like some powerful astringent, contracted his soul to the very small dimensions of selfishness, and God was forsaken, and man retired within himself, and became totally governed by narrow and selfish principles and feelings.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Powerful, Selfish, Fall

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• Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Customs, Magistrates

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• Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

  Kenneth Clark

  Delight, Greedy, Ruthless

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• Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous.

  William Petty

  Numbers, People, Bills

  Sir William Petty (1986). “The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty: Together with the Observations Upon the Bills of Mortality More Probably by John Graunt”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• Let us hold fast the great truth, that communities are responsible, as well as individuals; that no government is respectable which is not just. Without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity, and honor, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society.

  Daniel Webster

  Government, Law, Giving

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.150, Beard Books

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• Each one of us has the ability to play the game of life with balance, harmony and joy, but we need to know the rules and the principles.

  Robert Anthony

  Games, Play, Joy

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.1, Morgan James Publishing

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• No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort 's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

  Colin Wilson

  Believe, Thinking, Objectivity

  "Mysteries". Book by Colin Wilson, 1978.

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• Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Real, Heart

  Jonathan Edwards (2000). “Christian Love and It's Fruit”, p.12, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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