A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.
A. J. Liebling
You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
A. Philip Randolph
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
A. R. Ammons
I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.
A. R. Rahman
The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
Aaron Allston
I hope I'm building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles but being willing to work for them. I think when you do that and you work really hard, people take notice.
Aaron Schock
I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation.
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
I pledged to put country before party and assert my independence when it reflects my principles or the needs of Central Virginia, and I have done that.
Abigail Spanberger
Discrimination based on one's religion goes directly against our founding principles.
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
Abraham Kuyper
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Abraham Lincoln
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
Ada Yonath
And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
Adam Clarke
The Supreme Court's most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of 'judicial activism' - of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.
Adam Cohen
Following the principle that you should know your enemy, the BBC has assiduously recorded the relentless rise of Rupert Murdoch and his assault on the old 'decadent' elites of Britain.
Adam Curtis
I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
Adam Osborne
I think it's scary that that our elected officials aren't operating under the principles of human rights, under the principles that this government and this country was founded on.
Corporate governance should be done more through principles than rules.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.
The whole principle of coming out is that everyone knows someone who's gay. The minute someone comes out, no one can be a bigot, because someone they love is gay.
Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.
I have been offered obscene amounts to do commercials and stage shows abroad, but as a matter of principle, I am against them.
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.
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
As a preacher who has spent significant time in churches and houses of worship all across the country, I can tell you firsthand that religious liberty and freedom are principles that can never be infringed upon.
Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
Never compromise your principles, even if it leads to difficulties in the short term.
The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.
I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.
It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.
I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.'
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.
I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.
I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.
I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.
