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| Det finns ett otal politiska misstag som när de väl begåtts upphöjs till principer. | Guillaume Raynal |
| Det är enklare att kämpa för sina principer än att leva upp till dem. | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| Det är lättare att bekämpa principer än att leva efter dem. | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| Detta är mina principer, och om du inte gillar dem... så har jag fler. | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| Jag har inga principer, bara nerver. | Akutagawa Ryunosuku |
| Jag är en man med fasta och oböjliga principer, den första är att alltid vara flexibel. | Everett Dirksen (1896-1969) |
| Om alla män vore rättvisa, behövdes det ingen tapperhet. | Agesilaus |
| Principer har jag för att kunna frångå. | Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) |
| Principer påverkar inte ens förkunnarna av principer. Vi talar om principer men vi handlar utifrån intressen. | Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) |
| Viktiga principer kan, och måste, vara oflexibla. | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| Principper har ikke nogen virkelig magt, hvis man ikke har det daglige brød | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| If all men were just, there would be no need of valor | Agesilaus |
| It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount. | Frederick Scott Oliver |
| Glory is not a conceit. It is not a decoration for valor. Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in rerun. | John McCain (1936-) |
| High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life | John Templeton |
| Moral principle is the foundation of law. | Ronald D. Dworkin |
| I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck | Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947) |
| Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more. | William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) |
| If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. | Agatha Christie (1890-1976) |
| When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty | Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) |
| It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. | Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) |
| Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. | Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) |
| In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man | Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
| One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party | Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) |
| I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. | Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) |
| We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team. | Richard J. Daley (1902-1976) |
| Men have laid down the rules and definitions by which the world is run, and one of the objects of their definitions is woman | Sally Kempton |
| '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 (1737-1809) |
| Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt | William Cowper (1731-1800) |
| We love your adherence to democratic principles. | William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-) |
| Our differences are politics. Our agreements are principles. | William McKinley (1843-1901) |
| Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else's list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives. | Richard David Bach (1936-) |
| Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil | Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) |
| I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles. | Scott Adams (1957-) |
| It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. | Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970) |
| The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| Conquest is not in our principles; it is inconsistent with our government | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. | Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) |
| Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| We're in a fight for our principles and our first responsibility is to live by them. | George W. Bush (1946-) |
| Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest | Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
| It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. | Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965) |
| Damn your principles! Stick to your party. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. | Everett Dirksen (1896-1969) |
| Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| Expedients are for the hour; principles for the ages | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| The principles and modes of governments are too important to be disregarded by an inquisitive mind and I think are well worthy a critical examination by all students that have health and leisure | James Madison (1751-1836) |
| We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. | Jimmy Carter (1924-2002) |
| There is no arguing with one who denies first principles | Latin Proverb |
| We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. | Richard Feynman (1918-1988) |
| Moral principle is the foundation of law. | Ronald D. Dworkin |
| The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave the consequences to Him who has the disposal of them | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Our principles are founded on the immovable basis of equal right and reason. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views | Vauvenargues, Marquis de (1715-1747) |