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• We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse must depend upon our own wisdom or folly, virtue or wickedness.... Justice and virtue are the vital principles of republican government.

  George Mason

  Blessing, Government, Justice

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• As a writer I try to operate within a framework of Christian principles, and the words that are important to me are religious words: witness, pilgrimage, intention.

  William Zinsser

  Christian, Religious, Important

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• Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers

  Phil Collins

  Selfish, Thinker, Considering

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• We came to this earth that we might have a body and present it pure before God in the celestial kingdom. The great principle of happiness consists in having a body. The devil has no body, and herein is his punishment. He is pleased when he can obtain the tabernacle of man. . . . All beings who have bodies have power over those who have not.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Devil, Might

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• Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

  Edward Kennedy

  Mean, Political, Church

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• Sometimes principles must be quitted without blinking en eye to discover the new paths!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eye, Path, Sometimes

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• To trace the development of mind from earliest times ... requires ... not a categorical concept, but a functional one.... The most promising operational principle for this purpose is the principle of individuation.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Mind, Purpose, Development

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• Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Rights, Order

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.57, Harvard University Press

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• I knew that if we were going to actually defeat Harry Reid, we had to have a candidate who would offer a sharp policy contrast. Someone who would not just pay lip service to limited government principles, but had a solid record of voting that way time and again. I'm that candidate.

  Sharron Angle

  Government, Voting, Way

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• [Joseph Smith] foresaw the time when the destiny of the nation would be in danger and would hang as by a thread. Thank God he did not see the thread break. He also indicated the important part that this people should yet play in standing for the principles embodied in these sacred documents - the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Destiny, Play, People

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• God sees the minds (ruling principles) of all men bared of the material vesture and rind and impurities. For with his intellectual part alone he touches the intelligence only which has flowed and been derived from himself into these bodies. And if thou also usest thyself to do this, thou wilt rid thyself of thy much trouble. For he who regards not the poor flesh which envelops him, surely will not trouble himself by looking after raiment and dwelling and fame and such like externals and show.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Dwelling, Mind

  Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius (2012). “Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”, p.251, tredition

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• Indeed we may consider the engine as the material and mechanical representative of analysis, and that our actual working powers in this department of human study will be enabled more effectually than heretofore to keep pace with our theoretical knowledge of its principles and laws, through the complete control which the engine gives us over the executive manipulation of algebraical and numerical symbols.

  Ada Lovelace

  Law, Giving, Analysis

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• American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.

  Marco Rubio

  Spiritual, Political, Nations

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• The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis that the mental apparatus endeavours to keep the quantity of excitation present in it as low as possible or at least to keep it constant.

  Sigmund Freud

  Believe, Expression, Dominance

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• It must be pointed out, however, that strictly speaking it is incorrect to talk of the dominance of the pleasure principle over the course of mental processes. If such a dominance existed, the immense majority of our mental processes would have to be accompanied by pleasure or to lead to pleasure, whereas universal experience completely contradicts any such conclusion.

  Sigmund Freud

  Majority, Dominance, Pleasure

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole.

  Sigmund Freud

  Reality, Long, Ego

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious

  Thomas Jefferson

  Expression, Law, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.

  Stephen Covey

  Behavior, Determine, Consequence

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• Never compromise a principle or relinquish a vital truth.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Compromise, Never Compromise

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• Where principles and heart stand in conflict with each other, let us make the law of the spirit free from the law of principles.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Heart, Law, Spirit

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• It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, People, Judging

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.241, Hackett Publishing

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• I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They may be led astray for a moment, but will soon correct themselves. The people are the only censors of their governors; and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Army, Errors, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?

  Wernher von Braun

  Religious, Real, Thinking

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• The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.

  Robert Morrison MacIver

  Men, Ethical Principles, Self

  Robert Morrison MacIver (2005). “Politics and Society”, p.174, Transaction Publishers

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• Over a very small number of rolls of the dice, the uncertainty principle is very important.

  Stephen Hawking

  Uncertainty Principle, Small Numbers, Important

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