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Going by definition, a principle is a law or rule that has to be, or usually is to be followed, can be desirably followed, or else causing an inevitable consequence of something, such as the laws of nature or the way that a device is constructed. To ensure that there is more efficiency in the country/state the government lay rules and sometimes even religious institutions encourage followers to adhere to certain principles. Read this article completely if you want to know about the famous doctrines quotation and sayings.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

People Society
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thomas Paine

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

Life Ability Army Possible
Thomas Paine
D. H. Lawrence

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Change Moral Values Justice
D. H. Lawrence
Ray Kroc

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

Ray Kroc
Ambrose Bierce

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Politics Public
Ambrose Bierce
Prince William

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.

Life Concerned
Prince William
Jimmy Carter

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Jimmy Carter
Groucho Marx

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

Groucho Marx
Walter Winchell

Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

Moral Values
Walter Winchell
Charles Kingsley

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

Bible Christianity Men Art
Charles Kingsley
Bruce Lee

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Bruce Lee

Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles and not public pressures of other sort. That's the meaning of neutrality.

Anthony Kennedy
Andrew Carnegie

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Andrew Carnegie
Thomas Moore

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

Meaningful Initial Stage Character Truth
Thomas Moore
Franklin P. Jones

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

Meaningful Truth Value Facts
Franklin P. Jones

I learned conservatism through my grandfather; I didn't know that was the name. I didn't know these were conservative principles. Starting his life on a sharecropping farm. Working tremendously hard. Five years old, picking cotton and laying tobacco out to dry on a farm, and today he now owns that farm.

Life
Candace Owens
Sandra Day O'Connor

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

Good Education Children
Sandra Day O'Connor
Kayleigh McEnany

Opting for conspiracy over facts and partisanship over constitutional principles, Democrats have chosen to ignore the damning evidence of wrongdoing by the Obama-era FBI.

Facts
Kayleigh McEnany
Margaret Thatcher

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Margaret Thatcher
Thomas Paine

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Good Religion Sermon Value
Thomas Paine
Rupert Murdoch

No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.

Government
Rupert Murdoch
Alan Watts

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.

Parents
Alan Watts
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Anne Frank
Victor Hugo

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Change
Victor Hugo
Woodrow Wilson

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Democracy Government
Woodrow Wilson

The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'

John McCain
Andrew Carnegie

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Compromise
Andrew Carnegie
Laurence Sterne

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Happiness
Laurence Sterne
Agatha Christie

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Agatha Christie
John McCain

I admire the Islam. There's a lot of good principles in it.

Good Islam
John McCain
Tom Stoppard

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Truth Facts
Tom Stoppard
Gavin Newsom

I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.

Gavin Newsom
A. R. Rahman

I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.

Time
A. R. Rahman
George W. Bush

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

Order
George W. Bush
Muhammad Ali

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

Money
Muhammad Ali
Susan B. Anthony

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

Women
Susan B. Anthony
Mike Pence

And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative.

Government
Mike Pence
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a living as specialists in corporation or tax law. They have a continuing responsibility to uphold the fundamental principles of justice from which the law cannot depart.

Responsibility Justice Law
Robert Kennedy
Kayleigh McEnany

Whatever your partisan affiliation, it is worth considering the overarching constitutional principles involved in any given Supreme Court precedent.

Kayleigh McEnany
Abraham Lincoln

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Abraham Lincoln
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

Determination Feelings
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dolly Parton

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Morals
Dolly Parton
Bertrand Russell

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Capitalism Liberty
Bertrand Russell
Vladimir Putin

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world.

Democracy World
Vladimir Putin
Elon Musk

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

Reason Physics
Elon Musk
Ted Cruz

President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

People Togetherness
Ted Cruz
Mark Twain

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

Politics Pressure
Mark Twain
Henry Ward Beecher

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

Henry Ward Beecher
Benjamin Disraeli

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

Benjamin Disraeli
Paul Ryan

I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.

Paul Ryan
Mike Pence

Indiana is a state that works because conservative principles work every time you put them into practice.

Time Work
Mike Pence
Noam Chomsky

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Democracy Design
Noam Chomsky
Paul Ryan

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.

Paul Ryan
Vladimir Putin

The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles.

World
Vladimir Putin