Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
Thomas Jefferson

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Stephen Covey

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Abraham Lincoln

I think Bible principles are principles for life.
Joel Osteen

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
Joel Osteen

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Groucho Marx

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.
Robert H. Schuller

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
Plato

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
John C. Maxwell

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
Thomas Paine

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.
Thomas Paine

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach