Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
Andrew Johnson

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.
Joseph Beuys

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
William E. Gladstone

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
Morris West

I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
Morris West

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
George William Curtis

Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.
Yitzhak Rabin

Now, there is no way to say how long some projects take, that's our principle.
Christo

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
Kong Fu Zi

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.
Lakhdar Brahimi

When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.
Kin Hubbard

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
Arthur Calwell

It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
Garet Garrett

Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.
Frank Luntz

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

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

We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.
Kevin Costner

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.
Charles de Secondat

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.
Gregory Bateson

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.
George Wald